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Senior Backend Engineer - Performance - US

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

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.

What they're looking for

  • Willingness to work collaboratively with Teleport's engineers on coding challenge in Go as part of the interview process
  • 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
  • Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to master new technologies
  • Transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset
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 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.

Become an expert on scalability, performance, and reliability of Teleport in large deployments.

Design, develop,...

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