[Hiring] Staff Backend Engineer @Teleport

Role Description

We are looking for product-focused systems engineers to work on Teleport Core Product. You will work on problems ranging from performance and scalability, security and networking, to integrations with external systems. You will work on the full product lifecycle from working with customers to understand their problems, writing RFDs for your proposed design, implementing, testing, and documenting. Teleport is an open core project, and most of the code you will write will be open source and written in Go.

What You'll do

• Become an expert on scalability, performance, and reliability of Teleport in large deployments.
• Design, develop, and ship outstanding, high-quality products.
• Write most of the code in Go.
• Join one of Teleport's access teams to build secure, passwordless access to infrastructure.
• Improve observability, tracing, and failure handling for debugging at scale.
• Grow your technical expertise.
• Lead a distributed team of outstanding engineers.

Qualifications

• Willingness to work collaboratively with Teleport's engineers on coding challenge in Go as part of the interview process.
• Builder mentality and experience — you love building zero-to-one products.
• Extensive Go experience.
• 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 a willingness to master new technologies.
• Transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset.
• Significant contributions in Open Source is a big plus.

Requirements

• Extensive health coverage.
• Annual expense budget.
• Rest and recovery policies that maximize your ability to recharge.
• Investment in your future with retirement savings plans.
• Professional development opportunities.

Benefits

• You're joining a company where the problem is real, the team is small, and your work shows up directly in the product.
• Freedom and autonomy to do what you're great at, alongside teammates who care about doing it right.
• Collaborative work environment with real room to grow.
• A mission worth showing up for.
• Remote-first and globally distributed team.