Teleport

backend developer in infrastructure security

In short

Senior backend developer role at Teleport, a cybersecurity company building cryptographically secured identities for humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents. The job focuses on scalability, performance, and reliability of a large-scale distributed infrastructure identity product written mainly in Go, including direct work with customers on performance issues. Requires extensive Go experience, distributed systems expertise, Linux systems engineering, and knowledge of Identity Management, RBAC, ABAC, and zero-trust security models. Fully remote position.

About Teleport
Teleport provides cryptographically secured identities for humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents to improve engineering velocity while maintaining security. Its open core infrastructure identity product helps companies secure infrastructure for an AI world.
Responsibilities
•Become an expert in Teleport's scalability, performance, and reliability in large deployments
•Design, develop, and ship high-quality products
•Write most of the code in Go
•Collaborate with other teams on scalability and performance
•Work directly with customers to diagnose and remediate performance issues
•Grow technical expertise
Requirements
•Extensive Go experience
•Extensive experience developing scalable, reliable, and performant distributed systems and platforms
•Linux systems engineering experience
•Knowledge of Identity Management, RBAC, ABAC, and zero-trust security models
•Builder mentality and experience building zero-to-one products
•Intellectual curiosity and willingness to master new technologies
•Transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset
Nice to have
•Significant contributions to Open Source
Conditions
•Extensive health coverage
•Annual expense budget
•Rest and recovery policies
•Retirement savings plans
•Professional development opportunities
•Coding challenge collaboration in Go as part of the interview process; the take-home challenge usually takes about 2 weeks

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