Senior Software Engineer, Security - UK

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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, and Elastic to secure infrastructure for an AI world.

About the Role

We are looking for security-focused software engineers to work on Teleport’s Security Engineering and Defense and Intelligence teams.

Security Engineering

• Work on problems ranging from cryptography and networking to security automation and AI agents.
• Work throughout the Engineering team on the full product lifecycle: reviewing RFDs for proposed designs, code review, vulnerability testing, and documentation.
• Most of the code you review and write will be open source and written in Go (or Rust).

Defense and Intelligence

• Work with the detection and response stack (examples: Panther, Wiz, Jamf Protect, and Temporal) to stop breaches.
• Solve for false positives, detection coverage, and response automation by writing code and building AI agents.
• Triage and tune detection and response logic in a tight feedback loop with security teammates and the broader engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Review RFDs from engineers on a variety of proposed projects for security and quality.
• Pair with the Cloud team to deploy service control policies (SCPs) in AWS to prevent undesired configurations.
• Hunt for vulnerabilities using both traditional scanning tools and LLM / AI tools in innovative and creative ways.
• Automate routine security and compliance processes to increase effectiveness and decrease busywork.
• Implement and maintain log pipelines for event data sources like critical SaaS apps or endpoint telemetry.
• Engage with red teams to test and harden detection and response capabilities.
• Build response automation to reduce the risk of advanced attacks against Teleport systems.
• Contribute to the Teleport product to improve defense for both Teleport and customers.
• Ensure noisy/false-positive alerts are minimized through a tight feedback loop.

Requirements

• Experience with Go or Rust (explicitly listed).
• Experience participating in code review and design review processes (RFDs).
• Experience or familiarity with detection & response concepts, log pipelines, and endpoint telemetry is implied by the role.

Nice to Have

• Security experience
• Cryptography engineering experience

How We Hire

• 30 minute intro call to walk through compensation, interview process, and requirements.
• 30 minute call with the hiring manager to walk through the take-home exercise and answer questions.
• Participation in a Slack channel and submission of a coding challenge in Go using GitHub (take-home challenge that mirrors real work).

The Benefits

• Extensive health coverage
• Annual expense budget
• Rest and recovery policies
• Retirement savings plans
• Professional development opportunities

Other Notes

• Teleport is remote-first and globally distributed; this role is listed for the United Kingdom (remote).
• Teleport is an equal opportunity employer and includes a Candidate Privacy Notice with details about processing applicant personal data.