Teleport

Senior Backend Engineer - Performance - UK

Teleport
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Remote, United Kingdom or London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, document, and ship high-quality Teleport products.
  • Become an expert in the scalability, performance, and reliability of Teleport in large deployments.
  • Write most production code in Go.
  • Collaborate with other Teleport engineering teams on scalability and performance.
  • Work directly with customers to diagnose and remediate performance issues.
  • Participate in the full product lifecycle, including customer discovery and technical design through RFDs.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience developing scalable, reliable, and performant distributed systems and platforms.
  • Extensive experience with Go.
  • Experience in Linux systems engineering.
  • Knowledge of identity management, RBAC, ABAC, and zero-trust security models.
  • A builder mentality and experience creating zero-to-one products.
  • Willingness to complete a collaborative Go coding challenge as part of the interview process.
  • Intellectual curiosity, collaborative working style, transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset.
  • Significant open-source contributions are a plus.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work at a globally distributed company.
  • Extensive health coverage.
  • Annual expense budget.
  • Rest and recovery policies.
  • Retirement savings plans.
  • Professional development opportunities.
  • The interview coding challenge usually takes about two weeks and is completed collaboratively using Slack and GitHub.

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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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