# Senior Backend Engineer , Distributed Systems at Teleport

- Company: Teleport
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://goteleport.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States (Remote)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $189K to $342K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-03-18
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/goteleport/5fc09c78-7237-4135-9c53-783badeea0e7
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/teleport-senior-backend-engineer-distributed-systems/

## 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

Tags: Engineering