Senior Backend Engineer - Performance - Ireland

Teleport
Ireland
Workplace: RemoteFull timeEUR 134,000 - 177,100 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Collaboration","Intellectual curiosity","Transparency","Honesty"]

Build and ship Teleport Core Product focused on platform scalability, performance, and reliability in large deployments. Work across the full product lifecycle—understand customer problems, write RFDs, implement, test, and document—while collaborating with other teams. Write most of your code in Go for an open-core project, diagnose performance issues directly with customers, and develop deep expertise in secure, distributed systems.

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Teleport
Teleport
2 months ago

Senior Backend Engineer - Performance - Ireland

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Job Summary

Build and ship Teleport Core Product focused on platform scalability, performance, and reliability in large deployments. Work across the full product lifecycle—understand customer problems, write RFDs, implement, test, and document—while collaborating with other teams. Write most of your code in Go for an open-core project, diagnose performance issues directly with customers, and develop deep expertise in secure, distributed systems.
Location: Ireland
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 for Teleport Core Product.
  • •Collaborate with other Teleport teams on scalability and performance.
  • •Work directly with customers to diagnose and remediate performance issues.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 134,000 - 177,100 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •Extensive Go experience.
  • •Extensive experience building scalable, reliable, and high-performance distributed systems and platforms.
  • •Linux systems engineering experience.
  • •Knowledge of identity management, including RBAC, ABAC, and zero-trust security models.
  • •A builder mentality and willingness to collaborate on a Go coding challenge as part of the interview process.
Experience:Distributed systemsPlatformsOpen source
Skills:CollaborationIntellectual curiosityTransparencyHonesty
Tech Stack:GoLinuxRBACABACZero-trustGitHubSlack

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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