Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Cloud & Observability

Teleport; United States; On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; 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 hiring for a senior software/SRE role focused on Teleport Cloud. You will re-engineer the core product for global scale, rewrite components for cloud capabilities, and build a robust observability stack.

Strong Go and Kubernetes skills, plus experience with Linux, networking, and automation, are essential. Ideal candidates thrive in a security‑conscious, collaborative environment with on-call duties and an onboarding in Oakland, CA.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive experience in Software Engineering and/or SRE/DevOps roles.
• Strong experience in Linux systems, networking, containers, and troubleshooting.
• Have solid Go and Kubernetes development experience.
• Experience developing scripts, automation, or tooling that integrates AI agents into workflows.

Responsibilities

• Re-engineer the core Teleport product to scale globally and reduce routing latency.
• Rewrite portions of the core Teleport product for the cloud initiative.
• Build out the observability stack to monitor production and minimize false positives.
• Develop automation to tackle high-toil tasks and improve productivity.
• Handle patching, scaling, backups, DR, and other operations challenges.
• Investigate outages and incidents affecting customers.
• Participate in on-call rotations for 24/7/365 uptime.

Skills

Go programming

Kubernetes

Linux systems

Networking

Troubleshooting

Security mindset

Communication

Collaboration

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Job description

Teleport is hiring for a senior software/SRE role focused on Teleport Cloud. You will re-engineer the core product for global scale, rewrite components for cloud capabilities, and build a robust observability stack.

Strong Go and Kubernetes skills, plus experience with Linux, networking, and automation, are essential. Ideal candidates thrive in a security‑conscious, collaborative environment with on-call duties and an onboarding in Oakland, CA.