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About this Senior Backend Engineer role at Teleport

Teleport · Remote · United States (Remote)

About Teleport

Don't wait for the future of infrastructure. Be part of it.

Teleport is the AI Infrastructure Identity Company. We're solving one of the hardest problems in security: giving every human, machine, workload, and AI agent a cryptographically secured identity, improving engineering velocity while maintaining security. We make trusted computing simple. This gives you the freedom, power, and autonomy to build and innovate with confidence.

Remote-first and globally distributed, we work with companies like Nasdaq, IBM, and Elastic to secure infrastructure for an AI world.

About the Role

 

We are looking for product-oriented backend engineers to join our engineering team here at Teleport. You will be responsible for designing and implementing backend services and APIs that enable access controls auditing tools, audit logging, session recording summarization, and identity workflows in all aspects of Teleport.

You will be involved in the entire product development cycle, from working with customers to understand security needs, to writing RFDs for your design ideas, to implementing distributed systems in Go. You will work very closely with engineers, product managers, and security researchers to design features that secure and monitor access to infrastructure at scale.

You will play a key role in shaping how modern infrastructure access is secured, audited, and managed at scale.

What You'll Do

What We're Looking For

  • Go or Rust experience

  • Linux systems engineering

  • Cryptography engineering experience is a plus

How We Hire

  • You will join 30 minute intro call and we will walk you through the compensation, interview process and requirements

  • You will join a 30 minute call with the hiring manager, and we will walk you through the take home exercise and help answer questions

  • You join a Slack channel and submit a coding challenge in Go using Github

Why Teleport

You're joining a company where the problem is real, the team is small, and your work shows up directly in the product. We're not a big company, you won't get lost in a crowd. You'll have the freedom and autonomy to do what you're great at, alongside teammates who care about doing it right and want to see you succeed. The work is collaborative, there's real room to grow, and the mission is one worth showing up for.

Remote-first and globally distributed, we're genuinely passionate about what we're building.

The Benefits

At Teleport, we believe your career is more important than a list of perks. That's why we focus on making your day-to-day the best it can be — giving you the autonomy, access, and support to do the best work of your career.

- Extensive health coverage

- Annual expense budget

- Rest and recovery policies that maximize your ability to recharge

- Investment in your future with retirement savings plans

- Professional development opportunities

Teleport is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classifications protected by federal, state, or local law.

Candidate Privacy Notice: For information about our collection and processing of job applicant personal data for this position, please see our Job Applicant Privacy Policy and Notice of Collection at goteleport.com/legal/apply/job-applicant/

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How this Backend Engineer salary compares

This role pays $261,440/yrabove the typical range for Backend Engineer roles.

$138,000 median $183,500 $260,450

Typical range $161,500–$210,000/yr, from 41 comparable Backend Engineer listings on JobsRadar (pay annualized to USD). See Backend Engineer salary insights →

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