Staff Backend Engineer: Secure Infrastructure Access

goteleport.com; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; 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, tackling performance, security, networking, and integrations. You will drive the full product lifecycle from customer discovery to design, implementation, testing, and documentation.

The role is remote-first, with Go as the main language, and you'll join an access team delivering passwordless, scalable access at scale. You will lead distributed engineers, improve observability, and grow your technical

Qualifications

• Extensive Go experience and contribution to Go projects.
• Experience building scalable, reliable distributed systems.
• Engineering leadership and people-management experience.
• Linux systems engineering with a security-focused mindset.
• Knowledge of identity management and zero-trust concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and ship high-quality Go code for Teleport Core Product.
• Join a distributed access team delivering passwordless, scalable infrastructure.
• Improve observability, tracing, and failure handling at scale.
• Lead a distributed team of engineers and grow technical capabilities.
• Engage with customers to understand problems, write design proposals, implement, test, and document.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Leadership

Linux

Security

Job description

Teleport is seeking product-focused systems engineers to work on Teleport Core Product, tackling performance, security, networking, and integrations. You will drive the full product lifecycle from customer discovery to design, implementation, testing, and documentation.

The role is remote-first, with Go as the main language, and you'll join an access team delivering passwordless, scalable access at scale. You will lead distributed engineers, improve observability, and grow your technical