Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Security

Senior Backend Engineer - Platform 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, Discord, 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-focused systems engineers to work on Teleport itself. You will work on problems ranging from networking and performance to security and 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, implementation, testing, and documentation. Teleport is an open core project and most of the code you will write will be open source and written in Go (or Rust). PROJECTS YOU MAY WORK ON The Platform Security team is focused on application security for the Teleport product. This team implements security controls and works with security researchers to find and fix security vulnerabilities. Recent projects: - Teleport Device Trust https://goteleport.com/docs/access-controls/guides/device-trust/ - Add support for a new S3-based audit log - Enable storing private key material in AWS and GCP KMS REQUIREMENTS - Go or Rust experience - Linux systems engineering experience - Cryptography engineering experience is a plus As we are a startup, you should be comfortable changing the area of focus and working directly with customers. INTERVIEW PROCESS What to expect once you apply: - 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 in Go or Rust https://github.com/gravitational/careers/blob/main/challenges/systems/challenge-1.md using GitHub. The Benefits While many companies flaunt their benefits and perks to convince you to join their company, we believe your career is more important than that. That’s why we focus on making your day-to-day the best it can be while empowering you to achieve your goals and aspirations. What does that mean? - It means you’ll have the autonomy to make your own decisions and ... (truncated, view full listing at source)