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 worldâs 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 canât 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 youâre great at and have a significant impact on the future prospects of the company.
Whether thatâs 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.
Weâre not a big company. You wonât 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
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 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 opportunities
Teleport is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classifications protected by federal, state, or local law.
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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. Thatâs 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 youâll have the autonomy to make your own decisions and focus on whatâs important to you and your role.
It means having access to a senior team that supports you and wants to see you succeed.
Youâll have a smart team you can learn from, collaborate with, and grow with.
It means being able to make an impact and have a voice in the future of the feature, product or company direction. We donât just leave you to focus on a niche. We allow you to spread your wings and take advantage of opportunities, challenging projects and exciting problems.
It means removing the bureaucracy and red tape that stifles innovation while giving you access to all the information you need to build and take action more quickly.
It means allowing you to have the career youâve always wanted today, rather than having to âearn your stripesâ and wait for the right moment. If youâre good enough, youâre good enough.
But we donât stop there.
In addition to the career opportunities at Teleport, we offer a whole range of benefits that help you to maximize your future, including:
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 opportunities
Do you have what it takes?
Get to use (and know) Teleport through our unique interview process
At Teleport, we do things a bit differently. And when we say we only hire top talent, we actually mean it. Because of this, our interview process is different too - and weâre proud of it. We let your work do the talking. We donât go in for six rounds of interviews, live whiteboard or live-coding. We donât hire people that can talk a good game. We only want the best. And for that, we need to see what you can do, in your own time, in your own way. For real.
But interviews are a two-way street. Through the project, youâll get a real taste of life at Teleport, including:
Weâre flexible - youâll have plenty of time to complete your project, if life gets in the way, thatâs ok. We can - work around you.
We give you autonomy - youâll have the space and freedom to figure things out, make decisions, and problem-solve.
Weâre collaborative - Got questions?
We have answers. Youâll have support f
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