Senior Go Backend Engineer — Cloud Platform & Security

Teleport; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Annual expense budget

Rest and recovery policies

Retirement savings plans

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Teleport is a remote-first, globally distributed company building the AI Infrastructure Identity platform. We design a scalable cloud platform, focusing on security, performance, and analytics for Teleport as a SaaS product.

The Cloud Platform team creates multi-cluster Kubernetes controllers and networking services, with Go as the primary language. Join a collaborative, growth-oriented team shipping high‑quality software for a wide range of customers.

Qualifications

• Extensive Go experience and willingness to tackle interview coding challenges.
• Strong expertise with Kubernetes, including controllers and API extensions.
• Proven experience building scalable, reliable, and secure systems.
• Proficiency with AWS and other cloud services.
• Linux systems engineering and networking experience.
• Intellectual curiosity and willingness to master new technologies.
• Transparent, honest, and no-ego mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and ship high-quality cloud platform features.
• Build multi-cluster Kubernetes operators to manage Teleport at scale.
• Implement zero-downtime upgrades for long‑lived services.
• Write most code in Go.
• Collaborate closely with other Teleport teams.
• Grow technical expertise over time.

Skills

Go programming

Kubernetes

Security

AWS

Linux systems

Networking

Open Source

Curiosity/learn

Tools

Envoy

Cilium

GitHub

Job description

Teleport is a remote-first, globally distributed company building the AI Infrastructure Identity platform. We design a scalable cloud platform, focusing on security, performance, and analytics for Teleport as a SaaS product.

The Cloud Platform team creates multi-cluster Kubernetes controllers and networking services, with Go as the primary language. Join a collaborative, growth-oriented team shipping high‑quality software for a wide range of customers.