Staff Backend Engineer - Performance - US
About The Position
Teleport is seeking a product-focused systems engineer to work on its Core Product. The role addresses performance and scalability, security and networking, and integrations with external systems. The engineer will contribute across the full product lifecycle: working with customers to understand their problems, writing RFDs for proposed designs, implementing, testing, and documenting solutions. Teleport is an open core project, and most of the code for this role is open source and written in Go. The position focuses on becoming an expert in the scalability, performance, and reliability of Teleport in large deployments. It involves designing, developing, and shipping high-quality products, leading a distributed engineering team, collaborating across teams on scalability and performance, and working directly with customers to diagnose and remediate performance issues.
Requirements
- Willingness to collaborate with Teleport engineers on a Go coding challenge as part of the interview process.
- Builder mentality and experience, including enthusiasm for hands-on work and building zero-to-one products.
- Extensive Go experience.
- Extensive experience developing scalable, reliable, and performant distributed systems and platforms.
- Strong team leadership.
- Engineering management experience.
- Linux systems engineering experience.
- Knowledge of Identity Management, RBAC, ABAC, and zero-trust security models.
- Intellectual curiosity and willingness to master new technologies.
- Transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset.
Nice To Haves
- Significant contributions to open source.
Responsibilities
- Become an expert on the scalability, performance, and reliability of Teleport in large deployments.
- Design, develop, and ship high-quality products.
- Lead a distributed team of engineers.
- Write most of the code in Go.
- Collaborate with other Teleport teams on scalability and performance.
- Work directly with customers to diagnose and remediate performance issues.
- Contribute across the product lifecycle, including understanding customer problems, writing RFDs, implementing, testing, and documenting proposed solutions.
- Grow technical expertise.
Benefits
- Extensive health coverage.
- Annual expense budget.
- Rest and recovery policies intended to support recharging.
- Retirement savings plans.
- Professional development opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
