Staff Backend Engineer - Performance - US

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About Teleport

Teleport is the AI Infrastructure Identity Company. It provides cryptographically secured identity for humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents, helping organizations improve engineering velocity while maintaining security. Teleport is remote-first and globally distributed.

About the Role

Teleport is looking for product-focused systems engineers to work on its core product. The role covers performance and scalability, security and networking, and integrations with external systems. You will work across the full product lifecycle, including understanding customer problems, writing design RFDs, implementation, testing, and documentation.

Teleport is an open-core project, and most of the code is open source and written in Go.

Responsibilities

• Become an expert on the scalability, performance, and reliability of Teleport in large deployments.
• Design, develop, and ship high-quality products.
• Lead a distributed team of engineers.
• Write most of the code in Go.
• Collaborate closely with other Teleport teams on scalability and performance.
• Work directly with customers to diagnose and remediate performance issues.
• Continue growing your technical expertise.

Requirements

• Willingness to collaborate with Teleport engineers on a Go coding challenge during the interview process.
• Builder mentality and hands-on experience building zero-to-one products.
• Extensive Go experience.
• Extensive experience developing scalable, reliable, and performant distributed systems and platforms.
• Strong team leadership skills.
• Engineering 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.

Interview Process

The process includes:

1. A Zoom meeting with a Teleport recruiter covering the company, products, compensation philosophy, interview process, and key requirements.
2. A Zoom meeting with the hiring manager to discuss the coding challenge.
3. Collaboration on a Go coding challenge using GitHub. Candidates join a Slack channel and generally have about two weeks to complete the challenge, followed by a Zoom review with the hiring manager and an interview team member.
4. An offer if the challenge solution meets Teleport's requirements.

Benefits

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

Teleport is an equal opportunity employer.