Staff Backend Engineer - Infrastructure Access - US

at Teleport

📍 United States

USD 222,000-342,000 per year

SENIOR

✅ Remote

Tech Stack
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Details

Teleport is the AI Infrastructure Identity Company, building cryptographically secured identity for humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents. The company is remote-first and globally distributed.

Responsibilities

Work on Teleport Core Product across performance, scalability, security, networking, and integrations with external systems.
Contribute to the full product lifecycle, including understanding customer problems, writing design RFDs, implementation, testing, and documentation.
Become an expert in the scalability, performance, and reliability of Teleport in large deployments.
Design, develop, and ship high-quality products.
Write most of the code in Go.
Build secure, passwordless access to infrastructure using short-lived credentials at the scale of Teleport's largest customers.
Improve observability, tracing, and failure handling so the access layer can be debugged at scale.
Grow technical expertise and lead a distributed team of engineers.

Requirements

Willingness to collaborate with Teleport engineers on a Go coding challenge during 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.
Strong team leadership and management experience.
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

Zoom meeting with a Teleport recruiter covering the company, products, compensation philosophy, interview process, and key requirements.
Zoom meeting with the hiring manager to discuss the coding challenge.
Coding challenge collaboration using GitHub and Slack. The challenge usually takes about two weeks and concludes with a review meeting with the hiring manager and a member of the interview team.
An offer is made if the challenge solution meets Teleport's requirements.