Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Scalability
Senior backend engineer focused on platform scalability, performance, and reliability for Teleport's identity infrastructure. Requires extensive Go experience and distributed systems expertise.
About the job
What You'll do
- Become an expert on scalability, performance, and reliability of Teleport in large deployments.
- Design, develop, and ship outstanding, high-quality products.
- Write most of the code in Go.
- Closely collaborate with other teams at Teleport on matters related to scalability and performance.
- Work directly with our customers to diagnose and remediate performance issues.
- Master and thoughtfully apply technological advancements in the AI space.
- Grow your technical expertise.
What We're Looking For
- Willingness to work collaboratively with Teleport's engineers on coding challenge in Go as part of the interview process.
- Extensive Go experience.
- Extensive experience developing scalable, reliable, and performant distributed systems and platforms.
- Linux systems engineering experience.
- Knowledge of Identity Management, RBAC, ABAC, and zero-trust security models.
- Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to master new technologies.
- Transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset.
Nice to have
- Experience with Kubernetes APIs.
- Significant contributions in Open Source.
Skills
Go, Distributed Systems, Linux, RBAC, Abac, Zero Trust, Kubernetes, Performance Optimization, Scalability, Open Source
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