Staff Backend Engineer - Infrastructure Access - US
About The Position
Teleport is seeking a product-focused systems engineer to work on its Core Product, specifically with an access team building secure, passwordless access to infrastructure using short-lived credentials. The role addresses challenges involving performance and scalability, security and networking, and integrations with external systems. The engineer will work across the full product lifecycle, from understanding customer problems and writing design RFDs to implementation, testing, and documentation. Most of the code is written in Go and is open source. The role includes becoming an expert in the scalability, performance, and reliability of Teleport in large deployments, improving observability, tracing, and failure handling for the access layer, and leading a distributed team of engineers.
Requirements
- Willingness to collaborate with Teleport engineers on a Go coding challenge as part of the interview process.
- Builder mentality and experience, including a love of building zero-to-one products.
- Extensive Go experience.
- Extensive experience developing scalable, reliable, and performant distributed systems and platforms.
- Strong team leadership and 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.
- Write most of the code in Go.
- Build secure, passwordless access to infrastructure using short-lived credentials at the scale required by large customers.
- Improve observability, tracing, and failure handling so the access layer can be debugged at scale.
- Grow technical expertise.
- Lead a distributed team of engineers.
- Work across the product lifecycle, including understanding customer problems, writing design RFDs, implementing, testing, and documenting.
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
