Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Scalability - UK

Details

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

Responsibilities

• Work on Teleport Core Product across performance and scalability, security and networking, and integrations with external systems.
• Own the full product lifecycle, including customer discovery, writing RFDs for proposed designs, implementation, testing, and documentation.
• 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 technical expertise.

Requirements

• Willingness to complete a collaborative Go coding challenge as part of the interview process.
• Builder mentality and experience building zero-to-one products.
• Extensive experience with 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 willingness to master new technologies.
• Transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset.
• Significant open-source contributions are a plus.

Hiring Process

1. Video meeting with a Teleport recruiter.
2. Video meeting with the hiring manager, who will explain the coding challenge.
3. Collaborative coding challenge in Go using GitHub. The challenge typically takes about two weeks and concludes with a Zoom review meeting.
4. Candidates whose challenge solution meets the required standard 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.