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Required Skills & Competences
Tag name is followed by "@" symbol and proficiency level value.
About proficiency levels:
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Security @ 4
Go @ 4
Linux @ 4
GCP @ 4
GitHub @ 4
AWS @ 4
Networking @ 4
Rust @ 4
Slack @ 4
Audit @ 4
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Details
We help companies stay secure while moving fast.
Built by engineers for engineers, the Teleport Access Platform delivers on-demand, least privileged access to infrastructure based on cryptographic identity and zero trust, with built-in identity security and policy governance, making the happy path for engineers the secure path.
Teleport is trusted by the world’s fastest-moving companies, including Elastic, Discord, Doordash, and NASDAQ. We recently raised US$110M at a US$1.1B valuation.
About Us
Teleport is the Infrastructure Identity Company, modernizing identity, access, and policy for infrastructure, improving engineering velocity and resiliency of critical infrastructure against human factors and/or compromise. We are a fast-growing, well-funded Y-Combinator company. We value our craft, are strong supporters of work/life balance, and embrace a culture of humility, honesty, and transparency.
About this job
We are looking for product-focused systems engineers to work on Teleport itself. You will work on problems ranging from networking and performance to security and 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, implementation, testing, and documentation. Teleport is an open core project and most of the code you will write will be open source and written in Go (or Rust).
Projects you may work on
The Platform Security team is focused on application security for the Teleport product. This team implements security controls and works with security researchers to find and fix security vulnerabilities.
Recent projects mentioned in the posting:
- Teleport Device Trust
- Add support for a new S3-based audit log
- Enable storing private key material in AWS and GCP KMS
Requirements
- Go or Rust experience
- Linux systems engineering experience
- Cryptography engineering experience is a plus
Additional expectations from the posting:
- Comfortable changing area of focus and working directly with customers
- Work across networking, performance, security, and external integrations
- Contribute to design (RFDs), implementation, testing, and documentation
Interview Process
What to expect once you apply:
- 30 minute intro call to walk through compensation, interview process, and requirements
- Join a Slack channel and submit a coding challenge in Go or Rust using GitHub
The posting emphasizes a project-based interview (no live whiteboard or live-coding) and flexibility in completing the project.
The Benefits
The posting highlights:
- Extensive health coverage
- Annual expense budget
- Rest & recovery policies that maximize leave
- Retirement savings plans
- Equity in a US $1.1-bn business
- Professional development opportunities
Other notes
Teleport is an equal opportunity employer and provides a Candidate Privacy Notice with details on collection and processing of applicant personal data (link provided in the original posting).