Unified Identity Securing Classic and AI Infrastructure
Teleport, the AI Infrastructure Identity Company, prepares organizations for an AI future by establishing a unified identity layer for infrastructure, with humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents secured cryptographically with a hardware root of trust rather than vulnerable credentials. By replacing fragmented identity and access management systems with Infrastructure Identity, Teleport scales zero trust across cloud and on-prem environments, eliminating the complexity and risk created by identity fragmentation and credential sprawl. Teleport protects infrastructure from identity attacks, accelerates engineering by reducing infrastructure complexity, and secures non-deterministic agentic workflows. Headquartered in Oakland, CA, Teleport operates globally, with industry-leading customers such as Nasdaq, IBM, Doordash, and Elastic.
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
Teleport addresses the overlooked intersection between cybersecurity and infrastructureâan area companies have historically tried to manage through a fragmented mix of tools like PAM, network-centric controls, and fragmented secrets management. This approach was already inefficient, but it fundamentally breaks down in the era of AI.
AI changes the landscape in three critical ways. First, non-human, machine, and AI identities now outnumber human ones, driving massive secrets sprawl while worsening anonymity. Second, anonymity is incompatible with AI workloads: these systems are inherently non-deterministic, operate across many services and environments, and therefore require strong identity, continuous trust, and end-to-end visibility to function safely and correctly. Third, the non-deterministic nature of AI makes reliability and scalability non-negotiableâsystems must be resilient, observable, and with access control guardrails, because failures and unexpected behavior cannot be handled with static controls or manual intervention.
Solving this problem requires a fundamentally different approach: a unified identity layer that spans machines, workloads, humans, and agents. Identity becomes the security control plane that replaces network location and long-lived secrets as the basis of trust. Ephemeral privileges are critical in this modelâprivileges must be granted just-in-time, limited to the task at hand, and automatically expire, dramatically reducing blast radius in systems where behavior cannot be fully predicted. Finally, real-time intelligence is essential: in fast-moving, AI-driven environments, access decisions must continuously adapt to context, behavior, and system state, rather than relying on static policies defined in advance.
Teleport addresses the growing gap between todayâs cyber and infrastructure security posture and what modern, AI-driven systems actually require. As AI systems proliferate, attack surfaces and pathways multiply, giving adversaries unprecedented leverage. The result is an inflection point: without re-anchoring security and infrastructure around identity, real-time trust, and ephemeral privileges, the volume and impact of security breaches will only accelerate.
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
The Machine & Workload Identity team at Teleport is on a mission to eliminate long-lived secrets for non-human identities. Today, machines, workloads, and AI agents routinely authenticate using static credentials that are difficult to rotate, easy to leak, and impossible to audit. We replace them with short-lived cryptographic credentials, built on workload attestation and open standards like SPIFFE.
We're looking for a Senior Backend (Go) engineer to join the team. You will be involved in the entire product development cycle, from working with customers to understand their needs, to writing RFDs for your design ideas, to implementing distributed systems in Go. You will work closely with other engineers, product managers, and security researchers to design features that securely deliver cryptographic identity to machines, workloads, and AI agents at scale.
Projects you may work on
Designing and implementing novel solutions at the cutting edge of Agentic Identity.
Building tooling to enable customers to efficiently onboard and manage identity for fleets of machines, workloads, and AI agents.
Developing attestation methods for securely identifying machines, workloads, and AI agents without the need for secrets.
Optimizing credential issuance mechanisms to function reliably at the scale of hundreds of thousands of machines.
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
Experience with SPIFFE 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
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?
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