# Senior Backend Engineer - Performance - US 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: $222K to $342K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-23
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/goteleport/543d88d2-7ca9-4762-9006-5ebd0d64ce05
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/teleport-senior-backend-engineer-performance-us/

## 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

Tags: Engineering