Senior Backend Engineer

Teleport; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Annual budget

Rest & recovery

Retirement plan

Professional development

Job summary

Teleport is seeking product‑oriented backend engineers to design and implement backend services and APIs for access controls, auditing, and identity workflows at scale. You will work with Go or Rust, collaborating with engineers, product managers, and security researchers to secure infrastructure access across distributed systems.

Join Teleport’s remote‑first, globally distributed team to help shape how modern infrastructure access is secured, audited, and managed, while contributing to security

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Build backend integrations with cloud provider managed databases.
• Address scalability and resiliency for clusters with 10K+ nodes.
• Develop advanced HTTPS proxy with identity aware access control.
• Enhance security for Linux and Mac users.

Skills

Go

Rust

Linux

Cryptography

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, IBM, 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

How We Hire

• You will join 30 minute intro call and we will walk you through the compensation, interview process and requirements
• You will join a 30 minute call with the hiring manager, and we will walk you through the take home exercise and help answer questions
• You join a Slack channel and submit a coding challenge in Go using Github

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

At Teleport, we believe your career is more important than a list of perks. That’s why we focus on making your day-to-day the best it can be — giving you the autonomy, access, and support to do the best work of your career.

• 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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