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 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: Lea
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About the Job: Software powers the world, and LaunchDarkly empowers teams to deliver and control it safely. As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Identity & Access Management team, you will own the systems every customer touches before they touch anything else: SAML and OAuth2 single sign-on, SCIM user and team provisioning, login and session management, multi-factor authentication, and the API key and token infrastructure that authenticates every request to our platform. When authentication is wrong, customers cannot get in at all — or the wrong person gets in. Security and availability here are commitments to our customers, not nice-to-haves. You and your team will make this stack operable and enterprise-ready. Technologies include Go, TypeScript, CockroachDB, Redis, AWS, and Terraform. Exact tool match matters far less than deep backend judgment and a track record of safely changing sys
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6+ years of professional software-engineering experience, with significant work on complex backend applications. Experience building or operating production authentication and identity systems. A track record on systems where correctness and availability are non-negotiable, and the habits that come with it: backward-compatible change, staged rollouts, and safe cutovers. Proficiency in at least one backend language (Go, Rust, Python, etc.) and familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS or equivalent), plus strong production ownership including on-call. Bonus Protocol depth in SAML , OIDC /OAuth2, or SCIM , and integration experience with Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, OneLogin, or Ping. MFA /WebAuthn, RBAC and authorization policy engines, or audit logging at multi-tenant scale. Engineering under compliance regimes such as SOC 2 or FedRAMP. Pay: Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level 4: Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $191,800 - $263,670** Zone 2: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago - $172,600 - $237,270** Zone 3: All other US locations - $163,000 - $224,070**
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LaunchDarkly
LaunchDarkly is a Feature Management Platform that serves over 20 Trillion feature flags daily to help software teams build better software, faster. Feature flagging is an industry standard methodology of wrapping a new or risky section of code or infrastructure change with a flag. Each flag can easily be turned off independent of code deployment (aka ”dark launching”). LaunchDarkly has SDKs for all major web and mobile platforms. At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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