Staff Backend Engineer - Performance - US

goteleport; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extensive health coverage

Annual expense budget

Rest and recovery policies

Retirement savings plan

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Teleport is seeking product-focused systems engineers to work on Teleport Core Product. You will tackle performance, security, and integrations, writing Go code and collaborating with customers to diagnose issues.

This remote-first, globally distributed role offers a chance to lead a distributed engineering team and drive scalable infrastructure for an AI world.

Qualifications

• Extensive Go experience.
• Experience building scalable distributed systems.
• Engineering leadership and management experience.

Responsibilities

• Become an expert on Teleport’s scalability, performance, and reliability in large deployments.
• Design, develop, and ship high-quality products.
• Lead a distributed team of engineers.
• Write most of the code in Go.
• Collaborate with other teams on scalability and performance.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Leadership

Engineering management

Linux

Identity management

Zero-trust security

Customer collaboration

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, DoorDash, and Elastic to secure infrastructure for an AI world.

About the Role

We are looking for product-focused systems engineers to work on Teleport Core Product.

You will work on problems ranging from performance and scalability, security and networking, to integrations with external systems.

You will work on the full product lifecycle from working with customers to understand their problems, writing RFDs for your proposed design, implementing, testing, and documenting.

Teleport is an open core project, and most of the code you will write will be open source and written in Go.

What You'll do

• Become an expert on scalability, performance, and reliability of Teleport in large deployments.
• Design, develop, and ship outstanding, high-quality products.
• Lead a distributed team of outstanding engineers.
• Write most of the code in Go.
• Closely collaborate with other teams at Teleport on matters related to scalability and performance.
• Work directly with our customers to diagnose and remediate performance issues.
• Grow your technical expertise.

What We're Looking For

• Willingness to work collaboratively with Teleport's engineers on coding challenge in Go as part of the interview process.
• Builder mentality and experience -- you love being hands-on and building zero-to-one products.
• Extensive Go experience.
• Extensive experience developing scalable, reliable, and performant distributed systems and platforms.
• Strong team leadership.
• Engineering management experience.
• Linux systems engineering experience.
• Knowledge of Identity Management, RBAC, ABAC, and zero-trust security models.
• Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to master new technologies.
• Transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset.
• Significant contributions in Open Source is a big plus.

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

• 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

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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.