Backend Engineer

Who you are

• 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

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
• 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

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