Senior Backend Engineer , Distributed Systems
This is one of 12 engineering roles Teleport has open, and one of 8 at senior level. It went up 6 months ago.
About Teleport
Don't wait for the future of infrastructure. Be part of it.
Teleport is the AI Infrastructure Identity Company. We're solving one of the hardest problems in security: giving every human, machine, workload, and AI agent a cryptographically secured identity, improving engineering velocity while maintaining security. We make trusted computing simple. This gives you the freedom, power, and autonomy to build and innovate with confidence.
Remote-first and globally distributed, we work with companies like Nasdaq, DoorDash, and Elastic to secure infrastructure for an AI world.
About this job
We are looking for product focused systems engineers to work on Teleport itself.
You will work on problems ranging from networking and performance to security and integrations with external systems.
You will work on the full product lifecycle from working with customers to understand their problems, writing RFDs for your proposed design, implementation, testing, and documentation.
Teleport is an open core project and most of the code you will write will be open source and written in Go
What you'll do
You'll join one of Teleport's access teams. These teams build secure, passwordless access to every kind of infrastructure, using short lived credentials, and it has to work at the scale of our largest customers.
Find and fix performance bottlenecks through profiling, load testing, and studying how the system behaves under partitions and partial failures.
Work directly with large customers to diagnose and fix scaling and reliability problems in production.
Improve observability, tracing and failure handling so the access layer can be debugged at scale.
Requirements
Builder mentality and experience - you love building zero-to-one products
Extensive Go experience.
Extensive experience developing scalable, reliable, and performant distributed systems and platforms.
Linux systems software engineering experience
Nice to have
Significant contributions in Open Source is a big plus.
Interview Process
What to expect once you apply:
You will join 30 minute intro call and we will walk you through the compensation, interview process and requirements.
You join a Slack channel and submit a coding challenge in Go or Rust using GitHub.
Why Teleport
You're joining a company where the problem is real, the team is small, and your work shows up directly in the product. We're not a big company, you won't get lost in a crowd. You'll have the freedom and autonomy to do what you're great at, alongside teammates who care about doing it right and want to see you succeed. The work is collaborative, there's real room to grow, and the mission is one worth showing up for.
Remote-first and globally distributed, we're genuinely passionate about what we're building.
The Benefits
At Teleport, we believe your career is more important than a list of perks. That's why we focus on making your day-to-day the best it can be — giving you the autonomy, access, and support to do the best work of your career.
- Extensive health coverage
- Annual expense budget
- Rest and recovery policies that maximize your ability to recharge
- Investment in your future with retirement savings plans
- Professional development opportunities
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