Senior Backend Engineer, Reddit
Identity & Access Management
$190.8-267.1k
+ Equity
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
Job no longer available
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$190.8-267.1k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience designing and developing large-scale distributed backend systems
- Proficiency in one or more general purpose programming languages (preferably Go)
- Experience identifying and driving high-impact projects that align with the company's strategy
- Capability with essential cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS, GCP)
- High empathy and excellent communication skills to collaborate across the organization
- Specific IAM backend experience is a plus
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 authentication 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
- 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 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
Our take
Reddit is a website that facilitates thousands of message board communities, known as subreddits, with an aim to promote authentic human connection. There are more than 100,000 communities on Reddit, covering everything, from food, entertainment, sports, and books, to more niche topics that cater for very specific audiences.
The simple platform is used by more than 52 million people a day and attracts over 50 billion monthly views. While these are impressive numbers, they do pale in comparison with social media giants Facebook and Twitter, however, Reddit distinguishes itself by providing easy-to-find communities for a truly endless range of topics.
Reddit makes money through advertising as well as offering a premium ad-free membership plan. The company has enjoyed continuous user & revenue growth, acquisitions by Conde Nast in 2006 and Advance in 2011, and plans to launch an IPO bid in 2024.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$410m
SERIES F
Feb 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time off
- 4+ months paid parental leave
- Personal and professional development stipend
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Make something people love
- Evolve
- Work hard
- Default open
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Steve Huffman
(CEO)After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.
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