Senior Software Engineer, Security - UK

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, and Elastic to secure infrastructure for an AI world.
Security Engineering You will work on problems ranging from cryptography and networking to security automation and AI agents.
Teleport is an open core project and most of the code you review and write will be open source and written in Go (or Rust).
You will solve for false positives, detection coverage, and response automation by writing code and building AI agents.
- Pairing with the Cloud team to deploy service control policies (SCPs) in AWS to prevent undesired configurations.
- Hunting for vulnerabilities using both traditional scanning tools and LLM / AI tools in innovative and creative ways.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - Go or Rust experience NICE TO HAVE - Security

You'll have support from the team throughout. - You will join a 30 minute intro call and we will walk you through the compensation, interview process and

WHAT YOU'LL DO - Reviewing RFDs https://github.com/gravitational/teleport/blob/master/rfd/0000-rfds.md from engineers on a variety of proposed projects for security and quality.
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/tree/main/challenges 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 security-focused software engineers to work on Teleport’s Security Engineering and Defense and Intelligence teams.
You will work throughout the Engineering team on the full product lifecycle from reviewing RFDs for proposed designs, code review, vulnerability testing, and documentation.
Defense and Intelligence You will work with our detection and response stack: e.g.
Panther, Wiz, Jamf Protect, and Temporal to stop breaches.
You will work with your security teammates and the broader engineering team to triage and tune detection and response logic with a tight feedback loop.
- Automating routine security and compliance processes to increase effectiveness and decrease busywork.
- Implementing and maintaining log pipelines for valuable event data sources like critical SaaS apps or endpoint telemetry.
- Engaging with the best red teams in the world to test and harden our detection and response capabilities.