Backend Engineer, IAM

🏢 Reddit · 📍 Remote - United States · 💼 remote us 💰 $164,200 - $164,200 / yr

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

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 d

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Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Handling massive unstructured social graphs, community dynamics, content moderation at scale, and high-concurrency traffic spikes.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Proposing top-down, heavy-handed solutions that ignore grassroots community moderation dynamics.
2. Underestimating the caching and database consistency challenges of viral, high-velocity discussion threads.
3. Lacking resilience when discussing how to handle toxic content or platform abuse at global scale.

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I build scalable social infrastructure that empowers massive online communities to organize, debate, and share freely.

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