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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.
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Listed pay typically runs
$216,700–$303,000
across 89 roles with salary data.
The Senior Backend Engineer, IAM joins the Identity and Access Management team to develop and maintain mission-critical, highly performant, and scalable systems. This role involves designing, building, and shipping backend services that manage user identity, authentication, and authorization for millions of daily users and backend services. You will steer high-leverage projects, create scalable architectures, and mentor other technical contributors while collaborating with product management, security, and client engineering teams. The position requires proficiency in general-purpose programming languages, preferably Go, and experience with cloud infrastructure like Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS, and GCP. You must possess technical understanding of OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, session management, and authorization models such as ABAC, RBAC, and ReBAC to solve complex security-sensitive problems within the identity domain.
What does a Backend Engineer earn?
Median $206000 from 33 postings across 18 companies.