Teleport
Technology
SeniorBackendEngineer-PlatformScalability
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“Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Scalability at Teleport. Skills: Platform Scalability, Distributed Systems, Go Development. Become expert on scalability, performance, and reliability. Design, develop, and ship products”
Industry & Context.
Diagnose and remediate performance issues
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
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, Willingness to work collaboratively on coding challenge in Go
Nice to Have
Experience with Kubernetes APIs, Significant contributions in Open Source
What You'll Do.
Become expert on scalability
Collaborate with other teams on scalability and performance
Work with customers to diagnose and remediate performance
Master and apply technological advancements in AI space
Grow technical expertise
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with other teams; Work with customers
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 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. Teleport is an open core project, and most of the code you will write will be open source and written in Go. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Become an expert on scalability, performance, and reliability of Teleport in large deployments. - Design, develop, and ship outstanding, high-quality products. - Write most of the code in Go. - Closely collaborate with other teams at Teleport on matters related to scalability and performance. - Work directly with our customers to diagnose and remediate performance issues. - Master and thoughtfully apply technological advancements in the AI space. - Grow your technical expertise. 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. - Extensive Go experience. - Extensive experience developing scalable, reliable, and performant distributed systems and platforms. - Linux systems
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