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[Remote] Senior Backend Engineer

๐ŸŒ Remote ยท United States ๐Ÿ’ผ Full-time

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Teleport is the AI Infrastructure Identity Company, preparing organizations for an AI future by establishing a unified identity layer for infrastructure. The Senior Backend Engineer will be responsible for designing and implementing backend services and APIs, working closely with various teams to enhance security and access management for infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Designing and implementing backend services and APIs that enable access controls auditing tools, audit logging, session recording summarization, and identity workflows in all aspects of Teleport
  • Involved in the entire product development cycle, from working with customers to understand security needs, to writing RFDs for your design ideas, to implementing distributed systems in Go
  • Work very closely with engineers, product managers, and security researchers to design features that secure and monitor access to infrastructure at scale
  • Play a key role in shaping how modern infrastructure access is secured, audited, and managed at scale
  • Building backend integrations with cloud provider's managed databases
  • Working on scalability and resiliency of clusters with 10K+ nodes
  • Implementing advanced HTTPS proxy with identity aware access control
  • Building hardened security for Linux and Mac users

Skills

  • Go or Rust experience
  • Linux systems engineering
  • Cryptography engineering experience is a plus

Benefits

  • Extensive health coverage
  • Annual expense budget
  • Rest & recovery policies that maximize leave and your ability to recharge
  • Investment in your future with retirement savings plans
  • Equity in a US $1.1-bn business
  • Professional development opportunities

Company Overview

  • Teleport is an infrastructure identity company provides access to infrastructure on a foundation of cryptographic identity and zero trust. It was founded in 2015, and is headquartered in Oakland, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://goteleport.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Teleport has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 3 in 2025, 2 in 2024, 4 in 2023, 3 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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