Senior Backend Engineer – Platform Scalability

🕒 June 23

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £144k - £204.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Teleport

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2015

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $110M Series C - Teleport on 2022-05

Cybersecurity • SaaS • Enterprise

Teleport is a platform company that provides an infrastructure identity solution unifying identity, access, and policy for humans, machines, and AI agents. It offers cryptographic identity, zero trust access, ephemeral privileges, and identity governance to secure cloud and hybrid infrastructure, agentic AI workflows, and privileged access. Teleport targets enterprise compliance and resilience, helping organizations remove credentials and standing privileges, accelerate engineering productivity, and meet regulatory requirements like FedRAMP, SOC 2, and HIPAA.

📋 Description

• Become an expert on scalability, performance, and reliability of Teleport in large deployments. • Design, develop, and ship outstanding, high-quality products. • Write most of the code in Go. • Closely collaborate with other teams at Teleport on matters related to scalability and performance. • Work directly with our customers to diagnose and remediate performance issues. • Grow your technical expertise.

🎯 Requirements

• Willingness to work collaboratively with Teleport's engineers on coding challenge in Go as part of the interview process. • Builder mentality and experience -- you love building zero-to-one products • Extensive Go experience. • Extensive experience developing scalable, reliable, and performant distributed systems and platforms. • Linux systems engineering experience. • Knowledge of Identity Management, RBAC, ABAC, and zero-trust security models. • Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to master new technologies. • Transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset. • Significant contributions in Open Source is a big plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Extensive health coverage • Annual expense budget • Rest and recovery policies that maximize your ability to recharge • Investment in your future with retirement savings plans • Professional development opportunities