Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Scalability - Ireland

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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. Remote-first and globally distributed, we work with companies like Nasdaq, IBM, DoorDash, and Elastic to secure infrastructure for an AI world.

About the Role

We are looking for product-focused systems engineers to work on Teleport Core Product. You will work on problems ranging from performance and scalability, security and networking, to 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, implementing, testing, and documenting. Teleport is an open core project, and most of the code you will write will be open source and written in Go.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

• Willingness to work collaboratively with Teleport's engineers on a coding challenge in Go as part of the interview process (take-home / GitHub-based challenge).
• Builder mentality and experience — experience building zero-to-one products.
• Extensive Go experience; most code is written in Go.
• 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 a willingness to master new technologies.
• Transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset.
• Significant contributions in Open Source is a big plus.

How We Hire

Our process is designed to be straightforward and respectful of your time. For this role:

1. Zoom meeting with a Teleport recruiter to learn about the company, products, compensation philosophy, interview process, and key requirements.
2. Zoom meeting with the Hiring Manager to walk through the coding challenge and answer questions.
3. Coding challenge collaboration: join a Slack channel and complete a coding challenge in Go using GitHub (typically takes about 2 weeks), ending with a Zoom meeting to review your solution.
4. If the challenge solution meets the bar, you'll 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 any employee or applicant on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classifications protected by law.

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