Teleport
AI Infrastructure Identity
SeniorBackendEngineer,CloudPlatform
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“Senior Backend Engineer, Cloud Platform at Teleport. Skills: Go, Kubernetes, Cloud Platform. Work on networking. Work on performance”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver on ambitious quarterly goals
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Go, Kubernetes, AWS, Linux systems engineering
Nice to Have
Envoy, Cilium, Cryptography engineering
What You'll Do.
Contribute critical components
Manage Teleport at scale
Evolve global ingress stack
Deliver quarterly goals
Master technological advancements
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with other teams; Collaboratively work with engineers
Full Job Description
About Teleport Don't wait for the future of infrastructure. Be part of it. 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. We make trusted computing simple. This gives you the freedom, power, and autonomy to build and innovate with confidence. Remote-first and globally distributed, we work with companies like Nasdaq, IBM, DoorDash, and Elastic to secure infrastructure for an AI world. About the Role The Teleport Cloud Platform team architects a performant and scalable cloud platform that realizes the promise of Teleport as a SaaS product. The team is focused on scalability, security, and analytics of Teleport on our Cloud platform. They build multi-cluster Kubernetes controllers, networking services, platform monitoring tools, and more. As Teleport grows, the Cloud Platform team needs your expert help on all fronts. We strongly encourage you to explore our GitHub Repo https://github.com/gravitational to get a taste of what we are building. What You'll Do - Work on problems ranging from networking and performance to security and integrations with external systems. - Write most of the code in Go. - Contribute critical components to the projects like multi-cluster Kubernetes operators for managing Teleport at scale, zero-downtime services upgrade, evolve the global ingress stack with Envoy, Gateway API, and ALPN routing, and others. - Own the outcomes and deliver on ambitious quarterly goals. - Closely collaborate with other teams in the Cloud Organization. - Master and thoughtfully apply technological advancements in AI space. - Grow your technical expertise. What We're Looking For - Willingness to collaboratively work with Teleports’ engineers on coding challenge in Go https://github.com/gravitational/careers/blob/main/challenges/systems/challenge-1.md as part of
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