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Senior Backend Engineer , Distributed Systems

Teleport · United States (Remote) · Remote

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About Teleport

Teleport unifies human, machine, and AI identities with strong identity implementation to speed up engineering, improve resiliency, and secure AI in production. Backed by Bessemer, Insight and Kleiner Perkins.

About the role

You'll join one of Teleport's access teams. These teams build secure, passwordless access to every kind of infrastructure, using short lived credentials, and it has to work at the scale of our largest customers. Find and fix performance bottlenecks through profiling, load testing, and studying how the system behaves under partitions and partial failures.

What they're looking for

  • 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
  • Linux systems software engineering experience
More about this role

Don't wait for the future of infrastructure. Be part of it.

Teleport is the AI Infrastructure Identity Company. We're solving one of the hardest problems in security: giving every human, machine, workload, and AI agent a cryptographically secured identity, improving engineering velocity while maintaining security. We make trusted computing simple. This gives you the freedom, power, and autonomy to build and innovate with confidence.

Remote-first and globally distributed, we work with companies like Nasdaq, DoorDash, and Elastic to secure infrastructure for an AI world.

We are looking for product focused systems engineers to work on Teleport itself.

You will work on problems ranging from networking and performance to security and 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, implementation, testing, and documentation.

Teleport is an open core project and most of the code you will write will be open source and written in Go

You'll join one of Teleport's access teams. These teams build secure, passwordless access to every kind of infrastructure, using...

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