Senior Backend Engineer

at Teleport

📍 United States

USD 189,000-342,000 per year

SENIOR

✅ Remote

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Details

Teleport is the AI Infrastructure Identity Company, providing cryptographically secured identity for humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents. The company is remote-first and globally distributed.

Role

We are looking for a product-focused systems engineer to work on Teleport itself. The role covers networking, performance, security, and integrations with external systems. You will work across the full product lifecycle, including understanding customer problems, writing RFDs for proposed designs, implementation, testing, and documentation.

Teleport is an open-core project, and most of the code is open source and written in Go.

Responsibilities

Automatically discover and enroll AWS EKS clusters.
Automatically discover and enroll applications running within Kubernetes.
Extend Teleport RBAC to control access to Kubernetes resources.
Design and implement secure SSH server access using short-lived credentials.
Develop deep expertise in the SSH protocol and related protocols, including SFTP.
Work with Linux subsystems such as PAM, BPF, auditd, and cgroups to enable seamless server access.
Build and maintain Teleport's core SSH infrastructure to ensure reliable, secure connectivity across server environments.

Requirements

Builder mentality and experience, with a passion for building zero-to-one products.
Extensive experience with Go.
Extensive experience developing scalable, reliable, and performant distributed systems and platforms.
Linux systems software engineering experience.

Nice to Have

Significant open-source contributions.

Interview Process

A 30-minute introductory call covering compensation, the interview process, and requirements.
Participation in a Slack channel.
Submission of a coding challenge in Go or Rust using GitHub.

Benefits

Extensive health coverage.
Annual expense budget.
Rest and recovery policies.
Retirement savings plans.
Professional development opportunities.

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