Senior Site Reliability Engineer

What You'll Do

• Re-engineer the core Teleport product to scale globally and optimize routing latency for distributed teams.
• Re-write portions of the core Teleport product to enable cloud product goals.
• Build out monitoring and observability stack to alert on production issues and minimize false positives.
• Work on automation to eliminate highest toil activities.
• Execute on traditional operational challenges such as patching, scaling, backup and restore, disaster recovery.
• Investigate outages and incidents experienced by customers.
• Participate in on-call rotation for 24/7/365 system uptime.

Requirements

• Strong experience in Linux systems, networking, containers, and troubleshooting.
• Solid Go and Kubernetes development experience.
• Strong experience developing scripts, automation, or lightweight programs; submitting patches to product codebase; or building tooling that incorporates AI agents into operational workflows.
• Experience operating in a team where sound security choices are critical and reasoning about correctness and system invariants (e.g. formal or property-based methods) is valued.
• Intellectual curiosity and willingness to master new technologies.
• Transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Willingness to collaboratively work with Teleport’s engineers on a coding challenge in Go as part of the interview process.

Nice-to-Haves

• AWS Cloud experience (preferred); GCP experience acceptable.
• Experience with systems observability tools: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, etc.
• Operate and support the observability platform to maintain visibility and reliability.