Teleport

Staff Backend Engineer - Performance - US

Teleport
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Remote, United StatesStaff+
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Base Salary

$222k - $342k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Become an expert in Teleport’s scalability, performance, and reliability for large deployments.
  • Design, develop, test, document, and ship high-quality Teleport Core Product features.
  • Write most production code in Go.
  • Lead a distributed team of engineers.
  • Collaborate with other Teleport teams on scalability and performance.
  • Work directly with customers to diagnose and remediate performance issues.
  • Participate in the full product lifecycle, including customer discovery, RFD design proposals, implementation, testing, and documentation.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience with Go.
  • Extensive experience developing scalable, reliable, and performant distributed systems and platforms.
  • Strong team leadership and engineering management experience.
  • Experience with Linux systems engineering.
  • Knowledge of identity management, RBAC, ABAC, and zero-trust security models.
  • A hands-on builder mentality and experience building zero-to-one products.
  • Willingness to complete a collaborative Go coding challenge using GitHub during the interview process.
  • Intellectual curiosity, willingness to master new technologies, transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset.
  • Significant open-source contributions are a plus.

Benefits

  • Extensive health coverage.
  • Annual expense budget.
  • Rest and recovery policies designed to support recharge.
  • Retirement savings plans.
  • Professional development opportunities.
  • Remote-first work at a globally distributed company.
  • The interview coding challenge usually takes about two weeks and is completed through a Slack channel with team support.

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About Teleport

201-500 employees

Teleport builds an infrastructure access platform that assigns cryptographic identities to people, machines, and workloads to securely reach servers, Kubernetes, databases, applications, and clouds. It offers enterprise subscriptions and a managed cloud service, with roots in an open-source project. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Oakland, the privately held company focuses on zero-trust access, privileged access management, and policy governance for engineering teams operating multi-cloud and on-prem environments.

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