Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management

EngineersOfAI; United States; Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

EngineersOfAI is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join their SPACE org, focusing on Identity & Access Management at Reddit. In this role, you'll tackle modernization of identity infrastructure and automation of identity management lifecycles while ensuring security compliance.

Collaboration with cross-functional teams is key to success, as well as building robust integrations and monitoring frameworks. The position presents an opportunity to enhance security systems with advanced identity constructs and improve employee experiences.

Qualifications

• Experience in developing and maintaining internal identity capabilities and platforms.
• Proficiency in building monitoring frameworks and dashboards.
• Expertise in API integrations and custom enterprise connectivity solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop, scale, and maintain Reddit’s core IAM internal identity capabilities.
• Build proactive monitoring frameworks and executive dashboards.
• Create documentation and maintain compliance with business processes.

Job description

As a Staff Software Engineer within our SPACE org (Security, Privacy, Assurance, and Corporate Engineering), you will play a critical role on the Identity & Access Management (IAM) team.

In this role, you will design, deliver, and support the lifecycle of digital identities, authentication, and access across Reddit. You will partner closely with cross‑functional teams to build creative, scalable solutions that align with business priorities and strict regulatory standards. We operate in a dynamic, ambiguous problem space—meaning you’ll work across multiple domains and technology stacks to keep Reddit secure.

Some of our present and future challenges include:

• Modernizing our identity infrastructure by replacing legacy systems with a tailored governance platform.
• Providing self‑service identity management lifecycle and natural‑language explanations of existing systems to improve employee experience with security systems.
• Integrating Reddit’s corporate identity stack across a variety of protocols such as SCIM and SAML, and across use cases (MCP and Agentic, resource automation that includes identity requirements), and increasing Reddit’s maturity with "just-in-time" access and advanced identity constructs.

What You’ll Do:

• Engineering & Integration: Develop, scale and maintain Reddit’s core IAM internal identity capabilities, platforms and infrastructure. Design and deploy high‑quality API integrations and custom enterprise IGA connectivity solutions.
• Observability & Data Analytics: Build proactive monitoring frameworks, executive‑friendly dashboards, and advanced alerting. Use synthetic transactions and anomaly detection to measure system availability (aiming for multiple 9s). Utilize identity data to track license utilization, aid in fiscal planning, and drive platform adoption.
• Process & Compliance: Create and maintain documentation, audit logs, and reports to continuously improve business processes and ensure seamless compliance execution.
• Operations & Support: Troubleshoot complex production incidents, analyze failure conditions, and perform root‑cause analysis to support a 24x7 operation.
• Collaboration & Mentorship: Guide global, cross‑functional partners on IAM best practices while raising the engineering bar through code reviews, technical standards, and optimized workflows.

Technologies we use

Our teams leverage a diverse and modern technology stack. While specific technologies may vary by team, we generally work with: