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 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. 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.

What You'll Do

• Building backend integrations with cloud provider's managed databases.
• Working on scalability and resiliency of clusters with 10K+ nodes.
• Implementing advanced HTTPS proxy with identity aware access control.
• Building hardened security for Linux and Mac users.

What We're Looking For

• Go experience
• Linux systems engineering
• Web Fundamentals (cookie security, HTTP streaming and proxying)
• OAuth 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 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 in Go using Github

The Benefits

At Teleport, we believe your career is more important than a list of perks. That's why we focus on making your day-to-day the best it can be - giving you the autonomy, access, and support to do the best work of your career.

- Extensive health coverage

- Annual expense budget

- Rest and recovery policies that maximize your ability to recharge

- Investment in your future with retirement savings plans

- Professional development opportunities