Staff Backend Engineer – Infrastructure Access

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $222k - $342k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👷 Infrastructure Engineer

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Teleport

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

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

• Work on Teleport Core Product as a product-focused systems engineer • Address performance, scalability, security, networking, and external-system integration problems • Work across the full product lifecycle, including customer discovery, writing RFDs, implementation, testing, and documentation • Become an expert on Teleport scalability, performance, and reliability in large deployments • Design, develop, and ship high-quality products • Write most code in Go • Build secure, passwordless infrastructure access using short-lived credentials at large-customer scale • Improve observability, tracing, and failure handling for access-layer debugging at scale • Grow technical expertise • Lead a distributed team of engineers • Collaborate on a hands-on coding challenge and review the solution with the hiring team

🎯 Requirements

• Willingness to collaborate on a coding challenge in Go as part of the interview process • Builder mentality and experience; love building zero-to-one products • Extensive Go experience • Extensive experience developing scalable, reliable, and performant distributed systems and platforms • Strong team leadership and management experience • Linux systems engineering experience • Knowledge of Identity Management, RBAC, ABAC, and zero-trust security models • Intellectual curiosity and willingness to master new technologies • Transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset • Significant contributions in Open Source are a plus • Must currently live in the United States • Must be able to travel to Oakland, California for onboarding week and occasionally for team events • Must be comfortable with background, employment, and educational credential verification • Must be willing to complete a coding challenge that can take up to two weeks

🏖️ Benefits

• Extensive health coverage • Annual expense budget • Rest and recovery policies that maximize your ability to recharge • Retirement savings plans • Professional development opportunities • Equity