Senior Backend Engineer, Cloud Platform Development - US

Teleport
$222,000 - $342,000Remote

About The Position

The Teleport Cloud Platform team architects a performant and scalable cloud platform that realizes the promise of Teleport as a SaaS product. The team is focused on scalability, security, and analytics of Teleport on our Cloud platform. They build multi-cluster Kubernetes controllers, networking services, platform monitoring tools, and more. As Teleport grows, the Cloud Platform team needs your expert help on all fronts. We strongly encourage you to explore our GitHub Repo to get a taste of what we are building.

Requirements

  • Willingness to collaboratively work with Teleports’ engineers on coding challenge in Go as part of the interview process.
  • Extensive Go experience.
  • Strong expertise with Kubernetes, including experience writing controllers and extending Kubernetes via APIs.
  • Extensive experience developing scalable, reliable, and performant systems.
  • Strong security-related engineering experience and strong interest in the security space.
  • Proficiency with AWS and other cloud services.
  • Linux systems engineering experience.
  • Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to master new technologies.
  • Transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset.

Nice To Haves

  • Knowledge of Envoy, Cilium, Ingress
  • Cryptography engineering experience

Responsibilities

  • Work on problems ranging from networking and performance to security and integrations with external systems to the securing Agentic AI for enterprise.
  • Write most of the code in Go.
  • Contribute critical components to the projects like multi-cluster Kubernetes operators for managing Teleport at scale, zero-downtime services upgrade, evolve the global ingress stack with Envoy, Gateway API, and ALPN routing, building the trusted runtimes for infrastructure agents (our latest product - BEAMS), and others.
  • Own the outcomes and deliver on ambitious quarterly goals.
  • Closely collaborate with other teams in the Cloud Organization.
  • Master and thoughtfully apply technological advancements in AI space.
  • Grow your technical expertise.

Benefits

  • Extensive health coverage
  • Annual expense budget
  • Rest and recovery policies that maximize your ability to recharge
  • Investment in your future with retirement savings plans
  • Professional development opportunities
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