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Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Scalability

222k – 342kUnited StatesRemote5+ YOE
Summary

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 role

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
GoDistributed SystemsLinuxRBACABACZero TrustKubernetesPerformance OptimizationScalabilityOpen Source
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