Senior Backend Engineer

Teleport (Headquarters: US, Toronto, London)

Go Golang Backend Security Networking Linux Systems Software Scalability Cloud Security Infrastructure DevOps SRE Distributed Systems Teleport Open Source AGPL Back End Engineer Cyber Security

Teleport is seeking Senior Backend Engineers to join our team. We build security and deployment tools for other engineers, focusing on connectivity, authentication, access controls, and audit for infrastructure. You'll be hacking on our open-source project: https://github.com/gravitational/teleport.

Company Overview:
Teleport (YC S15) is a company started by engineers to build products for engineers. We are stable, growing, and aim to make infrastructure security easy to use and understand. Our core product provides SSO, mTLS, tunneling, audit logging, and unified RBAC for SSH, Kubernetes, databases, RDP, and web services.

Role & Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain backend components of the Teleport platform using Go.
- Contribute to the core Teleport codebase, which is open-source (AGPLv3).
- Work on features related to security, networking, scalability, and system architecture.
- Collaborate with other engineers in a company with minimal technical debt and a clean codebase.

Technical Skills & Requirements:
- Strong proficiency in Go (Golang).
- Deep understanding of Linux, networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, TLS, etc.), and security principles.
- Experience with building scalable and secure systems software.
- Comfortable working in a distributed team environment.
- Senior-level experience in backend software development.

Ideal Candidate:
- Enjoys building tools for fellow engineers.
- Passionate about security and infrastructure.
- Experience with distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), or Kubernetes is a plus.
- Contributes to or maintains open-source projects.

Benefits:
- Competitive salary and equity.
- 401k with company match.
- Excellent health insurance.

Application Process:
- 30 minute intro call covering compensation, interview process, and requirements.
- Join a private Slack channel.
- Submit a Go coding challenge via Github.