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Backend Engineer, IAM

Reddit · Remote - United States · Remote

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About Reddit

Backed by 500 Global.

About the role

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com .

What they're looking for

  • 3+ years of experience designing and developing distributed backend systems
  • IAM backend experience in either authorization or authentication domain
  • Proficiency in one or more general purpose programming languages (preferably Go)
  • Capability with essential cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS, GCP)
  • High empathy and excellent communication skills to collaborate across the organization
More about this role

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com .

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 consumer IAM 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.
  • Steer: Work with the team to select, scope, and execute on high leverage projects that align with Reddit’s...

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