Senior Backend Engineer, Reddit

IAM

$190.8-267.1k

+ Eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions

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Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Be an early applicant

$190.8-267.1k

+ Eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentSocial MediaCommunity

Company mission

To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

5+ years of experience designing and developing large-scale distributed backend systems with at least 2+ years focused on security-sensitive domains (IAM, Security, Privacy, or Anti-Abuse)
Technical understanding of core identity concepts, authentication protocols (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML), session management and/OR Authorization access models (ABAC, RBAC, ReBAC), centralized authorization engines
Proficiency in one or more general purpose programming languages (preferably Go)
Experience with (or curiosity to learn about) essential cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS, GCP)
Experience identifying and driving high-impact projects that align with the company's strategy
High empathy and excellent communication skills to collaborate across the organization

What the job involves

The Identity and Access Management team develops and maintains a set of mission critical, highly performant, and highly scalable systems that manage user identity, authentication, and authorization for all of our millions of daily users and backend services
Building systems around authentication, authorization and identity to meet the needs of Reddit’s engineering organization and millions of daily users
Design, build and ship backend services powering experiences for one of the most visited sites in the world
Work with product management, security, client engineering, and backend teams to define and implement Reddit’s IAM vision and roadmap
As a senior engineer on this team, you’ll be a technical coach and mentor
You’ll draw on your technical expertise to ensure these systems have high uptime and strong performance while working with others to build a roadmap to match the needs of an ever growing engineering organization
Steer: Work with the team to select, scope, and drive high leverage projects that align with Reddit’s goals
Build: Execute on a strategy and create a more performant, more scalable, higher quality architecture around authentication, authorization and identity
Amplify: Mentor, coach, and collaborate with other technical contributors
Collaborate: Work together with a variety of cross functional teams across Reddit Engineering
Evolve: Learn and improve your own technical and non-technical abilities

Our take

Reddits is an online platform that hosts thousands of message board communities (known as subreddits) designed to foster authentic human connection. With more than 130,000 communities covering everything from food, entertainment and sports, to niche interests for highly specific audiences, there's virtually a space for everyone.

The platform attracts over 120 million daily users and billions of monthly page views. While these figures are smaller than those of social media giants like Facebook and X, Reddit stands out by offering easily discoverable communities where users can dive deep into virtually any topic imaginable.

Today, Reddit continues to grow its user base and expand its reach, remaining a unique hub for conversation, connection and shared interests. With its strong community-driven model and steady revenue streams, it's most definitely positioned to stay a central part of online culture for years to come.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

57% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.9)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Aug 2021

$410m

SERIES F

Feb 2021

$250m

SERIES E

Total funding: $1.2bn

Company benefits

Comprehensive health benefits
Flexible vacation & Reddit global days off
Family planning funds & 4+ months paid parental leave
Personal & professional development funds
Paid volunteer time off
Workspace & home office benefits

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Steve Huffman

(CEO & Founder)

After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO for 5 years. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.

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