This role pays more than
71%
of similar roles. Most pay
$175,159–$236,128
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$229k
versus about
$206k
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
77 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$217,000–$303,400
across 77 roles with salary data.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, IAM, you will join 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. You will serve as a technical coach and mentor while designing and building backend services that ensure high uptime and scalable architecture. Your daily work involves steering high-leverage projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams to define the IAM roadmap, and executing strategies to improve security-sensitive infrastructure. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, authentication protocols like OAuth2, OIDC, and SAML, as well as authorization models such as ABAC, RBAC, or ReBAC. You will utilize general-purpose programming languages, preferably Go, and work with cloud infrastructure including Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS, and GCP to solve complex identity and access problems.
Backend Architecture
APIs
Agentic AI
Kubernetes
PostgreSQL
ClickHouse
Distributed Systems
Event-Driven Systems
Modular Monoliths
SaaS
Systems Programming
Performance Tuning