engineering
Posted 3 hours agoSenior Backend Engineer - Platform Scalability - UK
at Teleport
United KingdomRemote
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, DoorDash, and Elastic to secure infrastructure for an AI world.
- Teleport is an open core project, and most of the code you will write will be open source and written in Go.
- experience -- you love 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 a willingness to master new technologies. - Transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset. - Significant contributions in Open Source is a big plus.
Benefits
- You’ll learn about the company, our products, compensation philosophy, interview process, and key requirements. 2.
Contact
- WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - Willingness to work collaboratively with Teleport's engineers on coding challenge in Go https://github.com/gravitational/careers/blob/main/challenges/systems/challenge-1.md as part of the interview process. - Builder mentality and
- The day after your meeting with the Hiring Manager, you join a Slack channel and complete a coding challenge in Go https://github.com/gravitational/careers/blob/main/challenges/systems/challenge-1.md using GitHub.
Additional details
- 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-focused systems engineers to work on Teleport Core Product.
- You will work on problems ranging from performance and scalability, security and networking, to integrations with external systems.
- You will work on the full product lifecycle from working with customers to understand their problems, writing RFDs for your proposed design, implementing, testing, and documenting.
- HOW WE HIRE Our process is designed to be straightforward and respectful of your time.
- We skip performative rounds and focus on what matters: understanding how you think and what you can do.
- For this role, we use a take-home challenge that mirrors real work at Teleport — on your time, your way.
- The Hiring Manager will walk you through the coding challenge and answer your questions. 3.
- The challenge usually takes about 2 weeks and ends with a Zoom meeting with the Hiring Manager and a member of the interview team to review your solution. 4.