Senior Backend Engineer — High-Performance Go Systems

goteleport.com; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extensive health coverage

Annual expense budget

Rest and recovery policies

Retirement savings plans

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Teleport is seeking product-focused systems engineers to work on Teleport Core Product. You will tackle performance, scalability, security, and integration challenges across the full product lifecycle, collaborating with customers and teams.

Most code will be Open Source and written in Go. You will design, develop, and ship high-quality features, lead a distributed engineering team, and work directly with customers to diagnose and remediate performance issues.

Qualifications

• Hands-on builder who loves zero-to-one product work.
• Strong experience in Go and distributed systems.
• Leadership experience with engineering teams.
• Linux systems engineering background.
• Open source contributions are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and ship high-quality, scalable features in Teleport Core Product.
• Lead a distributed team of engineers to deliver reliable systems.
• Work with customers to diagnose performance issues and iterate on solutions.
• Write most of the code in Go and collaborate across teams.
• Grow technical expertise and influence Teleport’s product direction.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Leadership

Linux

Open source

Tools

Go toolchain

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Job description

Teleport is seeking product-focused systems engineers to work on Teleport Core Product. You will tackle performance, scalability, security, and integration challenges across the full product lifecycle, collaborating with customers and teams.

Most code will be Open Source and written in Go. You will design, develop, and ship high-quality features, lead a distributed engineering team, and work directly with customers to diagnose and remediate performance issues.