Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Scalability - Ireland

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About Teleport

Teleport is the AI Infrastructure Identity Company. It helps give every human, machine, workload, and AI agent a cryptographically secured identity, improving engineering velocity while maintaining security. Teleport is remote-first and globally distributed, working with companies such as Nasdaq, IBM, and Elastic.

About the Role

We are looking for product-focused systems engineers to work on the Teleport Core Product. You will work on problems involving performance and scalability, security and networking, and integrations with external systems.

You will contribute to the full product lifecycle, including working with customers to understand their problems, writing RFDs for proposed designs, implementation, testing, and documentation. Teleport is an open core project, and most of the code you write will be open source and written in Go.

Responsibilities

• Become an expert on the scalability, performance, and reliability of Teleport in large deployments.
• Design, develop, and ship high-quality products.
• Write most of the code in Go.
• Collaborate closely with other Teleport teams on scalability and performance matters.
• Work directly with customers to diagnose and remediate performance issues.
• Grow your technical expertise.

Requirements

• Willingness to collaborate with Teleport engineers on a Go coding challenge as part of the interview process.
• Builder mentality and experience, with enthusiasm for building zero-to-one products.
• Extensive Go experience.
• Extensive experience developing scalable, reliable, and performant distributed systems and platforms.
• Linux systems engineering experience.
• Knowledge of identity management, RBAC, ABAC, and zero-trust security models.
• Intellectual curiosity and willingness to master new technologies.
• Transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset.
• Significant open-source contributions are a major advantage.

Hiring Process

1. Zoom meeting with a Teleport recruiter covering the company, products, compensation philosophy, interview process, and key requirements.
2. Zoom meeting with the hiring manager, who will explain the coding challenge and answer questions.
3. Collaboration on a Go coding challenge using GitHub. The challenge typically takes about two weeks and concludes with a Zoom meeting to review the solution.
4. Candidates whose solutions meet the required standard receive an offer to join Teleport.

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 protected characteristics. Candidate personal data is handled according to Teleport's Job Applicant Privacy Policy and Notice of Collection.