Senior Backend Engineer - Cloud Platform

at Teleport

📍 United States

USD 222,000-342,000 per year

SENIOR

✅ Remote

Tech Stack
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Details

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

Responsibilities

Work on problems involving networking, performance, security, and integrations with external systems.
Design, develop, and ship high-quality products for the Teleport Cloud Platform.
Build and maintain systems such as:
- BEAMS, a Cloud Hypervisor-based Kata container agentic runtime platform.
- Multi-cluster Kubernetes operators for managing Teleport at scale.
- Zero-downtime upgrades for services with long-lived tunnels.
Write most of the code in Go.
Collaborate closely with other teams at Teleport.
Continue developing technical expertise.

Requirements

Willingness to collaborate with Teleport engineers on a Go coding challenge during the interview process.
Extensive experience with Go.
Strong expertise with Kubernetes, including writing controllers and extending Kubernetes through APIs.
Extensive experience developing scalable, reliable, and performant systems.
Strong software-related security experience and a strong interest in security.
Proficiency with AWS and other cloud services.
Linux systems engineering experience.
Networking experience.
Intellectual curiosity and willingness to master new technologies.
Transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset.

Nice to Have

Significant open-source contributions.
Knowledge of Envoy and Cilium.
Cryptography engineering experience.

Hiring Process

Zoom meeting with a Teleport recruiter to discuss the company, products, compensation philosophy, interview process, and key requirements.
Zoom meeting with the hiring manager, who will explain the coding challenge and answer questions.
Collaboration on a Go coding challenge using GitHub. Candidates join a Slack channel the day after the hiring-manager meeting. The challenge usually takes about two weeks and concludes with a Zoom meeting to review the solution.
Candidates whose challenge solution meets Teleport's requirements receive an offer.

Benefits

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

Teleport is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against employees or applicants on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classification protected by federal, state, or local law.