Senior Backend Software Engineer - Cloud Platform

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.

The Teleport Cloud Platform team architects a performant and scalable cloud platform that realizes the promise of Teleport as a SaaS product. The team is focused on scalability, security, and analytics of Teleport on our Cloud platform. They build multi-cluster Kubernetes controllers, networking services, platform monitoring tools, and more.

You will work on problems ranging from networking and performance to security and integrations with external systems.

Teleport is an open core project and most of the code you will write will be open source and written in Go. We strongly encourage you to explore our Git Hub Repo to get a taste of what we are building.

• Multi-cluster Kubernetes operators for managing Teleport at scale

• Zero-downtime upgrades for services with long-lived tunnels

• Global ingress stack with Envoy, Gateway API, and ALPN routing

• Reduced onboarding time for new customer instances

• Migration to EKS

• Go experience

• Willingness to collaboratively work with Teleports’ engineers on coding challenge in Go as part of the interview process.

• Strong expertise with Kubernetes, including experience writing controllers and extending Kubernetes via APIs

• Extensive experience developing scalable, reliable, and performant systems

• Strong software-related skills security experience and strong interest in security space

• Proficiency with AWS and other cloud services

• Linux systems engineering experience

• Networking experience

• Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to master new technologies.

• Transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset.

• Knowledge of Envoy and Cilium

• Cryptography engineering experience

We’ve designed a unique interview process that gives you the opportunity to learn about the company and collaborate with our engineering team on a project. Candidates who enjoy the process often stay with Teleport for a long time.