Join Reddit as a Senior Backend Engineer to build scalable IAM systems for millions of users in a fully remote environment.
Posted by employer 3 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 3 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 hour ago
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Backend Engineer for Identity and Access Management at Reddit will focus on designing and developing scalable backend systems that manage user authentication and authorization for millions of users. Key skills include expertise in security-sensitive domains, familiarity with authentication protocols like OAuth2 and SAML, and proficiency in programming languages such as Go. This position is ideal for someone with over five years of experience in backend development, particularly in security, who can also mentor and collaborate effectively across teams. Reddit's IAM team is critical to maintaining the integrity and performance of its vast user base.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 3 months ago — first seen on Joblaze July 3, 2026. Last confirmed on Reddit's careers page October 8, 2026.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 74% of 118 comparable senior backend roles in United States that list AWS we track (median $171,000 across 57 companies). See AWS salary trends
- AWS appears in 32.2% of 506 comparable senior backend roles in United States; ABAC appears in 0.2% of 506 comparable senior backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Backend Engineer, IAM role remote?
- Yes — Reddit lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Reddit lists $190,800–$267,100 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Backend Engineer, IAM role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: ABAC, AWS, GCP, Go, Kubernetes, OAuth2.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Reddit targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Backend Engineer, IAM role at Reddit.
From the original posting
This is a fully remote 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 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.
In your day-to-day, you will:
- 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.
Who you might be:
- 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.
Pay Transparency:
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.
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