# Senior Backend Engineer - Performance

**Company:** [Teleport](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/teleport)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** £144k – £205k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Distributed Systems, Linux, Scalability, Performance Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Identity Management, RBAC, Abac, Zero Trust Security, Open Source, GitHub
**Posted:** 2026-06-23

> Build and improve Teleport’s core backend systems, focusing on scalability, performance, reliability, and security. The role requires extensive Go experience, Linux systems engineering, and expertise developing distributed platforms while collaborating directly with customers and internal teams.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Become an expert on the scalability, performance, and reliability of Teleport in large deployments.
- Design, develop, and ship high-quality products.
- Write most code in Go.
- Collaborate with other Teleport teams on scalability and performance.
- Work directly with customers to diagnose and remediate performance issues.
- Grow technical expertise.

## Requirements
- Willingness to complete a coding challenge in Go as part of the interview process.
- Builder mentality and experience building zero-to-one products.
- 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 willingness to master new technologies.
- Transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset.

## Nice to Have
- Significant open-source contributions.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Salary range: 144000–204600.
- Extensive health coverage.
- Annual expense budget.
- Rest and recovery policies.
- Retirement savings plans.
- Professional development opportunities.

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