Staff Site Reliability Engineer - US

Details

Teleport is building secure, reliable infrastructure for its SaaS and cloud products. The role focuses on scaling the core Teleport product globally, improving routing latency, developing production infrastructure, and maintaining secure, highly available systems. Most code is written in Go.

Responsibilities

• Re-engineer the core Teleport product to scale globally and optimize routing latency for distributed teams.
• Rewrite portions of the core Teleport product to support cloud product goals.
• Build and improve monitoring and observability systems to detect production issues and minimize false positives.
• Automate and eliminate high-toil operational activities.
• Handle operational challenges including patching, scaling, backup and restore, and disaster recovery.
• Investigate customer outages and incidents.
• Participate in the on-call rotation to support 24/7/365 system uptime.
• Operate and support the observability platform to maintain visibility and reliability.

Requirements

• 8+ years of progressive experience in software engineering and/or SRE/DevOps roles.
• Strong experience with Linux systems, networking, containers, and troubleshooting.
• Solid Go and production Kubernetes development experience.
• Technical leadership experience.
• Experience developing scripts and automation, submitting patches to product codebases, or building tooling that incorporates AI agents into operational workflows.
• AWS Cloud experience preferred; GCP experience is acceptable.
• Experience with systems observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.
• Experience working in environments where sound security decisions are critical and correctness and system invariants, including formal or property-based methods, are valued.
• Intellectual curiosity and willingness to learn new technologies.
• Transparency, honesty, a no-ego mindset, and excellent communication skills.
• Willingness to collaborate with Teleport engineers on a Go coding challenge during the interview process.

Interview Process

The process includes recruiter and hiring manager or lead engineer Zoom meetings, followed by a collaborative take-home Go coding challenge using GitHub. The challenge usually takes about two weeks and concludes with a solution review.

Candidates must attend an in-person onboarding week at the Oakland, California office. Background checks are conducted.

Benefits

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

Teleport is an equal opportunity employer.