Senior Backend Software Engineer - Identity Security

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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, Snowflake, 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-oriented backend engineers to join the Identity Security team at Teleport. You will be responsible for designing and implementing backend services and APIs that enable access controls auditing tools, audit logging, session recording summarization, and identity workflows in all aspects of Teleport.

You will be involved in the entire product development cycle, from working with customers to understand security needs, to writing RFDs for your design ideas, to implementing distributed systems in Go. You will work very closely with engineers, product managers, and security researchers to design features that secure and monitor access to infrastructure at scale.

Projects you may work on

• Scaling Teleport’s audit log and event pipeline for high-volume use cases.
• Developing session recording and summarisation features for SSH, Kubernetes, databases, and Windows recordings.
• Developing fine-grained access control visualisations and identity workflows.
• Optimising Identity Security to be more efficient by improving backend performance, indexing, filtering, and policy evaluation.

You will play a key role in shaping how modern infrastructure access is secured, audited, and managed at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend services and APIs for identity security and auditing.
• Build and optimise distributed systems—particularly around audit logging, event pipelines, and session recording summaries.
• Collaborate with customers, product managers, security researchers, and other engineers to define requirements and designs (RFDs).
• Improve backend performance, indexing, filtering, and policy evaluation for Identity Security features.

Requirements

• Experience with Go or Rust.
• Linux systems engineering experience.
• Cryptography engineering experience is a plus.

Interview Process

• 30 minute intro call to walk through compensation, interview process, and requirements.
• Join a Slack channel and submit a coding challenge in Go using GitHub: https://github.com/gravitational/careers/tree/main/challenges

Teleport’s interview approach emphasizes take-home/project work over multiple live interview rounds or whiteboarding.

Benefits

• Extensive health coverage.
• Annual expense budget.
• Rest & recovery policies that maximize leave and your ability to recharge.
• Investment in your future with retirement savings plans.
• Equity in a US$1.1B business.
• Professional development opportunities.

Teleport is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classifications protected by federal, state, or local law.

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