Senior Backend Engineer - Performance - UK

Teleport
London
Workplace: RemoteFull timeGBP 144,000 - 204,600 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Builder mindset","Intellectual curiosity","Transparency","Collaboration","No-ego mindset"]

Build and ship Teleport Core Product focused on performance, scalability, and reliability in large deployments. Write most of your code in Go and work across the full product lifecycle—partnering with customers to diagnose issues, drafting RFDs, implementing, testing, and documenting. Collaborate with other teams on scalability and performance, and develop deep expertise while contributing to an open-core, largely open-source codebase.

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Teleport
Teleport
2 months ago

Senior Backend Engineer - Performance - UK

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Job Summary

Build and ship Teleport Core Product focused on performance, scalability, and reliability in large deployments. Write most of your code in Go and work across the full product lifecycle—partnering with customers to diagnose issues, drafting RFDs, implementing, testing, and documenting. Collaborate with other teams on scalability and performance, and develop deep expertise while contributing to an open-core, largely open-source codebase.
Location: London
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Become an expert in scalability, performance, and reliability of Teleport in large deployments.
  • •Design, develop, and ship high-quality products.
  • •Write most of the code in Go.
  • •Collaborate closely with other teams on scalability and performance.
  • •Work directly with customers to diagnose and remediate performance issues.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: GBP 144,000 - 204,600 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceRetirement SavingsLearning BudgetExpense Budget

Key Requirements

  • •Extensive Go experience, including willingness to complete a Go coding challenge during the interview process.
  • •Experience building scalable, reliable, high-performance distributed systems and platforms.
  • •Linux systems engineering experience.
  • •Knowledge of identity management, including RBAC, ABAC, and zero-trust security models.
  • •Ability to work collaboratively with other engineers and demonstrate a builder mindset for zero-to-one products.
Experience:Open sourceDistributed systems
Skills:Builder mindsetIntellectual curiosityTransparencyCollaborationNo-ego mindset
Tech Stack:GoLinuxGitHubSlackZoom

Company Brief

Teleport
Provides an access plane for infrastructure that secures SSH, Kubernetes, databases, and internal applications with identity-aware access, session recording, and unified audit for hybrid-cloud and cloud-native environments.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Headquarters: Seattle, United States
Founded: 2016
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