Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Scalability - US

Teleport

1d•$222,000 - $342,000•Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

Willingness to work collaboratively with Teleport's engineers on coding challenge in Go as part of the interview process.
Extensive Go experience.
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.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Kubernetes APIs.
Significant contributions in Open Source.

Responsibilities

Become an expert on scalability, performance, and reliability of Teleport in large deployments.
Design, develop, and ship outstanding, high-quality products.
Write most of the code in Go.
Closely collaborate with other teams at Teleport on matters related to scalability and performance.
Work directly with our customers to diagnose and remediate performance issues.
Master and thoughtfully apply technological advancements in the AI space.
Grow your technical expertise.