Senior Backend Engineer

Teleport; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Teleport is hiring product-oriented backend engineers to design and implement backend services and APIs that enable access controls auditing tools, audit logging, session recording summarization, and identity workflows at scale.

Join a remote-first, globally distributed team, work with Go or Rust, Linux systems engineering, and cryptography-focused security challenges to secure infrastructure for an AI world.

Qualifications

• Go or Rust experience.
• Linux systems engineering.
• Cryptography engineering experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend services and APIs for access controls auditing tools.
• Audit logging, session recording summarization, and identity workflows.
• Work with customers to understand security needs and draft design ideas, then implement distributed systems in Go.

Skills

Go or Rust experience

Linux systems engineering

Cryptography engineering

Job description

About Teleport

Don't wait for the future of infrastructure. Be part of it.

Teleport is the AI Infrastructure Identity Company. We're solving one of the hardest problems in security: giving every human, machine, workload, and AI agent a cryptographically secured identity, improving engineering velocity while maintaining security. We make trusted computing simple. This gives you the freedom, power, and autonomy to build and innovate with confidence.

Remote-first and globally distributed, we work with companies like Nasdaq, DoorDash, and Elastic to secure infrastructure for an AI world.

About the Role

We are looking for product-oriented backend engineers to join our engineering team here at Teleport. You will be responsible for designing and implementing backend services and APIs that enable access controls auditing tools, audit logging, session recording summarization, and identity workflows in all aspects of Teleport.
You will be involved in the entire product development cycle, from working with customers to understand security needs, to writing RFDs for your design ideas, to implementing distributed systems in Go. You will work very closely with engineers, product managers, and security researchers to design features that secure and monitor access to infrastructure at scale.

You will play a key role in shaping how modern infrastructure access is secured, audited, and managed at scale.

What You'll Do

• Building backend integrations with cloud provider's managed databases.
• Working on scalability and resiliency of clusters with 10K+ nodes.
• Implementing advanced HTTPS proxy with identity aware access control.
• Building hardened security for Linux and Mac users.

What We're Looking For

• Go or Rust experience
• Linux systems engineering
• Cryptography engineering experience is a plus

Why Teleport

You're joining a company where the problem is real, the team is small, and your work shows up directly in the product. We're not a big company, you won't get lost in a crowd. You'll have the freedom and autonomy to do what you're great at, alongside teammates who care about doing it right and want to see you succeed. The work is collaborative, there's real room to grow, and the mission is one worth showing up for.

Remote-first and globally distributed, we're genuinely passionate about what we're building.

The 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

Teleport is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classifications protected by federal, state, or local law.

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