Senior Backend Software Engineer - Identity Security

Senior Backend Software Engineer - Identity Security We help companies stay secure while moving fast. Built by engineers for engineers, The Teleport Access Platform delivers on-demand, least privileged access to infrastructure based on cryptographic identity and zero trust, with built-in identity security and policy governance, making the happy path for engineers the secure path. Teleport is trusted by the world’s fastest-moving companies, including Elastic, Snowflake, Doordash, and NASDAQ. We recently raised US$110M at a US$1.1B valuation. Our Vision Today's computing environments have too much complexity, too many network boundaries, and too little trust. Complexity slows engineers down and leads to human errors. Complex systems can’t be secure despite the red tape of bureaucracy. We make trusted computing simple. This gives engineers the freedom to move and build a better future. Why Teleport At Teleport, we focus on empowering our people to accomplish their goals by working alongside highly talented people to make the most of their careers. You have the freedom, autonomy and trust to do what you’re great at and have a significant impact on the future prospects of the company. Whether that’s taking a feature or project from ideation to deployment or working with some of the biggest, most interesting companies in the world and solving real challenges for them, we want you to help us build the future. We’re not a big company. You won’t get lost in a crowd. Instead, we move fast, with a team that wants to make an impact, that shares in our success, and gives you the freedom, power, and autonomy to become the very best at what you do. About Us Teleport is the Infrastructure Identity Company, modernizing identity, access, and policy for infrastructure, improving engineering velocity and resiliency of critical infrastructure against human factors and/or compromise. We are a fast-growing, well-funded Y-Combinator company. We value our craft, are strong supporters of work/life balance, and embrace a culture of humility, honesty, and transparency. About this job We are looking for product-oriented backend engineers to join the Identity Security team 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 Projects you may work on - Scaling Teleport’s audit log and event pipeline for high-volume use cases - Developing session recording and summarisation features for SSH, Kubernetes, databases, and Windows recordings - Developing fine-grained access control visualisations and identity workflows - Optimising Identity Security to be more efficient by improving backend performance, indexing, filtering, and policy evaluation You will play a key role in shaping how modern infrastructure access is secured, audited, and managed at scale. Requirements - Go or Rust experience - Linux systems engineering - Cryptography engineering experience is a plus Interview Process - You will join 30 minute intro call and we will walk you through the compensation, interview process and requirements - You join a Slack channel and submit a coding challenge https://github.com/gravitational/careers/tree/main/challenges in Go using Github Benefits - Extensive health coverage - Annual expense budget - Rest & recovery policies that maximize leave and your ability to recharge - Investment in your future with retirement savings plans - Equity in a US $1.1-bn business - Professional development opp ... (truncated, view full listing at source)