Staff Backend Engineer - Infrastructure Access - US

goteleport; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Health coverage

Retirement savings plans

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

goteleport is seeking a lead engineer to drive infrastructure access systems, delivering secure passwordless connections with short-lived credentials. You will shape the product from customer needs to design, build, test, and document scalable solutions, mostly in Go within an open-source codebase.

You will design and ship improvements with emphasis on performance and reliability, develop secure access across environments, improve observability and failure handling, and lead a distributed

Qualifications

• Extensive experience developing in Go and building distributed systems.
• Experience leading teams and managing engineering work.
• Linux systems engineering experience.
• Knowledge of identity management and zero-trust security.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship product improvements, with attention to performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Develop secure access capabilities for a range of infrastructure environments.
• Improve observability, tracing, and failure handling so large deployments are easier to troubleshoot.
• Lead and support a distributed engineering team.
• Contribute across design, implementation, testing, and documentation.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Team leadership

Linux

Identity management / zero-trust

Job description

Role overview

Lead engineering work on infrastructure access systems that provide secure, passwordless connections using short-lived credentials. You'll help shape the product across its lifecycle, from understanding customer needs and proposing designs to building, testing, and documenting systems that perform reliably at large scale. Most development is in Go, in an open-source codebase.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship product improvements, with attention to performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Develop secure access capabilities for a range of infrastructure environments.
• Improve observability, tracing, and failure handling so large deployments are easier to troubleshoot.
• Lead and support a distributed engineering team.
• Contribute across design, implementation, testing, and documentation.

Requirements

• Extensive experience developing in Go and building distributed systems or platforms.
• Strong background in systems that must scale while remaining reliable and performant.
• Experience leading teams and managing engineering work.
• Linux systems engineering experience.
• Knowledge of identity management, role- and attribute-based access control, and zero-trust security.
• A collaborative, low-ego approach, intellectual curiosity, and interest in building new products.

Nice to have

• Significant open-source contributions.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote-first, distributed work environment.
• Health coverage, an annual expense budget, retirement savings plans, rest and recovery policies, and professional development opportunities.