Senior Backend Software Engineer, Cloud Platform - US

Requirements

• Unified Identity Securing Classic and AI Infrastructure Teleport, the AI Infrastructure Identity Company, prepares organizations for an AI future by establishing a unified identity layer for infrastructure, with humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents secured cryptographically with a hardware root of trust rather than vulnerable credentials.
• This approach was already inefficient, but it fundamentally breaks down in the era of AI.
• AI changes the landscape in three critical ways.
• First, non-human, machine, and AI identities now outnumber human ones, driving massive secrets sprawl while worsening anonymity.
• Second, anonymity is incompatible with AI workloads: these systems are inherently non-deterministic, operate across many services and environments, and therefore require strong identity, continuous trust, and end-to-end visibility to function safely and correctly.
• Third, the non-deterministic nature of AI makes reliability and scalability non-negotiable—systems must be resilient, observable, and with access control guardrails, because failures and unexpected behavior cannot be handled with static controls or manual intervention.
• Finally, real-time intelligence is essential: in fast-moving, AI-driven environments, access decisions must continuously adapt to context, behavior, and system state, rather than relying on static policies defined in advance.
• Teleport addresses the growing gap between today’s cyber and infrastructure security posture and what modern, AI-driven systems actually require.
• As AI systems proliferate, attack surfaces and pathways multiply, giving adversaries unprecedented leverage.
• Most of the code you will write will be written in Go.
• A sample of recent projects: - Multi-cluster Kubernetes operators for managing Teleport at scale - Zero-downtime upgrades for services with long-lived tunnels - Global ingress stack with Envoy, Gateway API, and ALPN routing - Reduced onboarding time for new customer instances - Migration to EKS
• experience - Strong expertise with Kubernetes, including
• experience writing controllers and extending Kubernetes via APIs - Extensive
• experience developing scalable, reliable, and performant systems - Strong software-related security
• experience and strong interest in security space - Proficiency with AWS and other cloud services - Linux systems engineering experience - Networking
• experience - Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to master new technologies. - Transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset. Pluses - Knowledge of Envoy and Cilium - Cryptography engineering