Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Senior Site Reliability Engineer building and scaling Teleport's secure SaaS cloud infrastructure. Focus on global scaling, observability, automation, incident response, and on-call in a security-first environment using Go and Kubernetes.
About the job
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.
Skills
Go, Kubernetes, Linux, Networking, Containers, AWS, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Observability, Automation
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