Senior Backend Engineer

Teleport
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 189,000 - 342,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Builder mindset","Collaboration","Documentation"]

Build and evolve Teleport’s open core systems that provide cryptographically secured identity and trusted access across infrastructure. Work across networking, performance, security, and integrations, from customer discovery through design (RFDs), implementation, testing, and documentation. You’ll automate AWS EKS and Kubernetes enrollment, extend Teleport RBAC for Kubernetes, and implement secure SSH server access using short-lived credentials.

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Teleport
Teleport
5 months ago

Senior Backend Engineer

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Job Summary

Build and evolve Teleport’s open core systems that provide cryptographically secured identity and trusted access across infrastructure. Work across networking, performance, security, and integrations, from customer discovery through design (RFDs), implementation, testing, and documentation. You’ll automate AWS EKS and Kubernetes enrollment, extend Teleport RBAC for Kubernetes, and implement secure SSH server access using short-lived credentials.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Automatically discover and enroll AWS EKS clusters.
  • •Automatically discover and enroll applications running within Kubernetes.
  • •Extend Teleport RBAC to control access to Kubernetes resources.
  • •Design and implement secure SSH server access using short-lived credentials.
  • •Develop Teleport’s core SSH infrastructure and work with Linux subsystems (PAM, BPF, auditd, cgroups) to enable seamless server access.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 189,000 - 342,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceExpense BudgetRetirement SavingsLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •Builder mentality and experience, with a love for building zero-to-one products.
  • •Extensive Go experience.
  • •Extensive experience developing scalable, reliable, and performant distributed systems and platforms.
  • •Linux systems software engineering experience.
Experience:Distributed systemsOpen source
Skills:Builder mindsetCollaborationDocumentation
Tech Stack:GoAWS EKSKubernetesRBACSSHSFTPLinuxPAMBPFAuditdCgroupsRustGitHub

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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