Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Scalability - Us

at Teleport

📍 United States

USD 222,000-342,000 per year

SENIOR

✅ Remote

Tech Stack
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Details

About Teleport

Teleport is the AI Infrastructure Identity Company. They solve 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.

Teleport is remote-first and globally distributed, and works with companies like Nasdaq, IBM, and Elastic.

About the Role

Teleport is looking for product-focused systems engineers to work on the 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: working with customers to understand their problems, writing RFDs for 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.

What You'll do

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 customers to diagnose and remediate performance issues.
Grow your technical expertise.

What We're Looking For

Willingness to work collaboratively with Teleport's engineers on a coding challenge in Go as part of the interview process.
Builder mentality and experience; you love 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 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

Zoom meeting with a Teleport recruiter (company, products, compensation philosophy, interview process, key requirements).
Zoom meeting with the Hiring Manager (walkthrough of the coding challenge and your questions).
Coding challenge collaboration: join a Slack channel and complete a coding challenge in Go using GitHub. The challenge usually takes about 2 weeks and ends with a Zoom meeting with the Hiring Manager and a member of the interview team to review your solution.
If your challenge solution meets their bar, you’ll receive an offer.

Why Teleport

You’ll work on real problems with a small team where your work shows up directly in the product. They emphasize freedom and autonomy, collaboration, and room to grow.