Senior Backend Engineer - Application Access

United StatesRemote

Requirements

Teleport is the AI Infrastructure Identity Company.
We're solving one of the hardest problems in security: giving every human, machine, workload, and AI agent a cryptographically secured identity, improving engineering velocity while maintaining security.
Remote-first and globally distributed, we work with companies like Nasdaq, IBM, and Elastic to secure infrastructure for an AI world.
You will be involved in the entire product development cycle, from working with customers to understand security needs, to writing RFDs for your design ideas, to implementing distributed systems in Go.
experience Nice to Have: - Cryptography engineering

experience is a plus How We Hire - You will join 30 minute intro call and we will walk you through the compensation, interview process and

What You'll Do - Building backend integrations https://github.com/gravitational/teleport/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aaws with cloud provider's managed databases.
- Working on scalability and resiliency https://github.com/gravitational/teleport/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Ascaleof clusters with 10K+ nodes.
- Building hardened security https://github.com/gravitational/teleport/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Asecurity for Linux and Mac users.
requirements - You will join a 30 minute call with the hiring manager, and we will walk you through the take home exercise and help answer questions - You join a Slack channel and submit a coding challenge https://github.com/gravitational/careers/blob/main/challenges/systems/challenge-1.md in Go using Github Why Teleport You're joining a company where the problem is real, the team is small, and your work shows up directly in the product.

About Teleport Don't wait for the future of infrastructure. Be part of it.
This gives you the freedom, power, and autonomy to build and innovate with confidence.
About the Role We are looking for product-oriented backend engineers to join our Application Access (MCP) engineering team here at Teleport.
You will be responsible for designing and implementing backend services and APIs that enable access controls auditing tools, audit logging, session recording summarization, and identity workflows in all aspects of Teleport.
You will work very closely with engineers, product managers, and security researchers to design features that secure and monitor access to infrastructure at scale.
You will play a key role in shaping how modern infrastructure access is secured, audited, and managed at scale.
- Implementing advanced HTTPS proxy with identity aware access control.
We're not a big company, you won't get lost in a crowd.
You'll have the freedom and autonomy to do what you're great at, alongside teammates who care about doing it right and want to see you succeed.
The work is collaborative, there's real room to grow, and the mission is one worth showing up for.