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Backend Engineer, IAM

Remote, United States remote Entry $164,200 - $197,040
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About the role

Headquarters: Remote - United States

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.

This is a remote-friendly role. Reddit has a flexible first workforce.

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.

Some of our present and future challenges include:

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.

In your day-to-day, you will:

Steer: Work with the team to select, scope, and execute on 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 IAM.

XFN Collaboration: Work together with a variety of cross functional teams across Reddit Engineering.

Evolve: Learn and improve your own technical and non-technical abilities.

Who you might be:

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.

Benefits:

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

401k with Employer Match

Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support

Family Planning Support

Gender-Affirming Care

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off

Generous Paid Parental Leave 

 

 
Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is 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. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base salary range for this position is:
$164,200—$229,900 USD

In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.

During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable.  We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes.  We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision.  For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors.

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.  Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/reddit-backend-engineer-iam

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