This role pays less than
53%
of similar roles. Most pay
$168,495–$228,950
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$197k
versus about
$199k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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Reddit is a social news aggregation and discussion platform where users share content, vote on posts, and engage in community conversations across thousands of interest-based forums called subreddits.
Reddit currently has
78 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$217,000–$303,200
across 78 roles with salary data.
Backend Engineer, IAM joins the Identity and Access Management team to develop and maintain mission-critical, high-performance systems managing user identity, authentication, and authorization for millions of daily users and backend services. In this role, you will steer high-leverage projects, build a more performant and scalable architecture around IAM, and collaborate with cross-functional teams including product management, security, and client engineering to implement the organization's vision. You will work on building systems for consumer IAM and designing backend services that power user experiences. The ideal candidate possesses over three years of experience in distributed backend systems, specific expertise in authentication or authorization domains, and proficiency in general-purpose programming languages like Go. Additionally, you must demonstrate capability with essential cloud infrastructure including Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS, and GCP while maintaining high empathy and communication skills.
What does a Backend Engineer earn?
Median $206000 from 30 postings across 12 companies.
Backend Architecture
APIs
Agentic AI
Kubernetes
PostgreSQL
ClickHouse
Distributed Systems
Event-Driven Systems
Modular Monoliths
SaaS
Systems Programming
Performance Tuning