Staff Backend Engineer - Secure Infrastructure Access (Remote)

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

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