Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Security

We help companies stay secure while moving fast

Built by engineers for engineers, The Teleport Access Platform delivers on‑demand, least privileged access to infrastructure based on cryptographic identity and zero trust, with built‑in identity security and policy governance, making the happy path for engineers the secure path.

Teleport is trusted by the world’s fastest‑moving companies, including Elastic, Snowflake, Doordash, and NASDAQ. We recently raised US $110M at a US $1.1B valuation.

Today's computing environments have too much complexity, too many network boundaries, and too little trust. Complexity slows engineers down and leads to human errors. Complex systems can’t be secure despite the red tape of bureaucracy. We make trusted computing simple. This gives engineers the freedom to move and build a better future.

At Teleport, we focus on empowering our people to accomplish their goals by working alongside highly talented people to make the most of their careers. You have the freedom, autonomy and trust to do what you’re great at and have a significant impact on the future prospects of the company.

Whether that’s taking a feature or project from ideation to deployment or working with some of the biggest, most interesting companies in the world and solving real challenges for them, we want you to help us build the future.

We’re not a big company. You won’t get lost in a crowd. Instead, we move fast, with a team that wants to make an impact, that shares in our success, and gives you the freedom, power, and autonomy to become the very best at what you do.

Teleport is the Infrastructure Identity Company, modernizing identity, access, and policy for infrastructure, improving engineering velocity and resiliency of critical infrastructure against human factors and/or compromise.

We are a fast‑growing, well‑funded Y‑Combinator company. We value our craft, are strong supporters of work/life balance, and embrace a culture of humility, honesty, and transparency.

Teleport Cloud takes our traditionally open‑source and enterprise access plane and provides a SaaS option for our customers to adopt.

As such, our team is building our production and software as a service infrastructure from scratch. We tackle the hard problems that allow our customers to trust us for secure and reliable access to their infrastructure. We are constantly investing in our security posture, whether by red‑teaming, security audits, better tooling, audit, and more.

Excellent security is table stakes; a security breach can compromise our customers' infrastructure. We must also balance security with maintaining productivity and building a compelling product offering for our customers.

If you're security‑minded and live the production mindset, this role might be for you.

• Re-engineer the core teleport product to scale globally and optimize routing latency for teams distributed around the world
• Re‑write portions of the core Teleport product to enable our goals for the cloud product
• Build out our monitoring and observability stack to alert us to production issues and minimize false positives so we can all get a good sleep at night
• Work on automation to tackle and eliminate the highest toil activities
• Execute on traditional operation challenges, such as patching, scaling, backup and restore, disaster recovery, and more
• Investigate the outages and incidents our customers experience with our product
• Participate in the on‑call rotation to ensure 24/7/365 system uptime

• Strong experience in Linux systems, networking, containers, and troubleshooting.
• Have solid Go and Kubernetes development experience, building automation, modifying controllers, and contributing to the product codebase.
• Operate and support the observability platform to maintain visibility and reliability.
• Own and operate the runtime of a secure, production distributed system.
• Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to master new technologies.
• As we are a startup, you should be comfortable changing the area of focus and working directly with customers.
• Transparency, honesty, and a no‑ego mindset.
• Excellent communication…