Senior Backend Engineer - Performance

About Teleport

Teleport is a leading AI Infrastructure Identity company focused on solving challenging security problems by providing cryptographically secured identities for humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents. This approach enhances engineering speed while ensuring strong security, enabling trusted computing for innovation with confidence. Teleport operates as a remote-first, globally distributed team, collaborating with clients such as Nasdaq, DoorDash, and Elastic to protect infrastructure in an AI-driven world.

Role Overview

We are seeking product-oriented systems engineers to contribute to the Teleport Core Product, tackling issues ranging from performance, scalability, security, networking, to integrating with external systems. This role involves engaging throughout the product lifecycle: understanding customer challenges, proposing designs via RFDs, implementing solutions, testing, and documenting. The codebase is predominantly open source and developed in Go.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop expertise in scalability, reliability, and performance optimization of Teleport in large-scale deployments.
• Design, build, and deliver exceptional, robust software products.
• Primarily write code in Go language.
• Collaborate closely with other Teleport teams on scalability and performance-related challenges.
• Engage directly with customers to diagnose and resolve performance issues.
• Continuously enhance technical skills and knowledge.

Qualification Criteria

• Willingness to participate in a collaborative Go coding challenge during the interview process.
• Proven builder mentality and experience in creating products from the ground up.
• Substantial experience programming in Go.
• Strong background in building scalable, performant, and reliable distributed systems and platforms.
• Hands-on Linux systems engineering proficiency.
• Understanding of Identity Management frameworks, including RBAC, ABAC, and zero-trust security models.
• Intellectual curiosity with eagerness to learn and master new technologies.
• Commitment to transparency, honesty, and a collaborative, ego-free work attitude.
• Significant contributions to open source projects are viewed as a major advantage.

Hiring Process

• Initial Zoom interview with a Teleport recruiter covering company overview, product insights, compensation, interview process, and role expectations.
• Follow-up Zoom session with the Hiring Manager explaining the coding challenge and addressing candidate queries.
• Two-week coding challenge performed in collaboration via Slack and GitHub, focusing on real-world Teleport tasks using Go.
• Final review of challenge submission with Hiring Manager and team members leading to a job offer if standards are met.

Why Join Teleport

Joining Teleport means working in a nimble company where your impact is direct and visible. The company fosters autonomy, collaboration, growth opportunities, and a strong mission drive. The distributed, remote-first model supports flexible work arrangements.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance coverage
• Annual budget allocated for work-related expenses
• Policies designed to support rest and personal recharge
• Retirement savings plan to secure your financial future
• Opportunities for professional development and skill enhancement

Equal Opportunity & Candidate Privacy

Teleport is committed to equal employment opportunity without discrimination based on age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or other protected categories. Applicant data privacy is maintained according to the company's official Job Applicant Privacy Policy.

Compensation

The salary range for this position is €134,000 to €177,100 per year.