Senior Site Reliability Engineer - US
About The Position
Teleport is the AI Infrastructure Identity Company, focused on securing infrastructure for an AI world by providing every human, machine, workload, and AI agent with a cryptographically secured identity. The company operates on a remote-first and globally distributed model. This role is within the Teleport Cloud team, which is building a SaaS option for Teleport's access plane. The team is responsible for building production and software as a service infrastructure from scratch, tackling complex security challenges to ensure customer trust and reliability. The role requires balancing strong security with productivity and product development. The primary programming language for this role is Go, and candidates are encouraged to explore the company's GitHub repository.
Requirements
- Willingness to collaboratively work with Teleports’ engineers on coding challenge in Go as part of the interview process.
- Strong experience in Linux systems, networking, containers, and troubleshooting.
- Have solid Go and Kubernetes development experience.
- Strong experience developing scripts, automation, or lightweight programs, submitting patches to the product codebase, or building tooling that incorporates AI agents into operational workflows.
- Systems Observability tools: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki etc.
- Operate and support the observability platform to maintain visibility and reliability.
- Experience operate in a team where sound security choices are critical, and where reasoning about correctness and system invariants (e.g. formal or property-based methods) is valued.
- Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to master new technologies.
- Transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset.
- Excellent communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- AWS Cloud experience is preferred, GCP experience is acceptable.
Responsibilities
- Re-engineer the core teleport product to scale globally and optimize routing latency for teams distributed around the world
- Re-write portions of the core Teleport product to enable our goals for the cloud product
- Build out our monitoring and observability stack to alert us to production issues and minimize false positives so we can all get a good sleep at night
- Work on automation to tackle and eliminate the highest toil activities
- Execute on traditional operation challenges, such as patching, scaling, backup and restore, disaster recovery, and more
- Investigate the outages and incidents our customers experience with our product
- Participate in the on-call rotation to ensure 24/7/365 system uptime.
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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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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