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title: 'Senior Backend Engineer - Cloud Platform at Teleport'
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# Senior Backend Engineer - Cloud Platform at Teleport

- **Company:** Teleport
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $222k–$342k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-11-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/goteleport/67257887-5704-479c-92eb-14a89e0d3412

## 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, DoorDash, and Elastic to secure infrastructure for an AI world.

## About the Role

The Teleport Cloud Platform team architects a performant and scalable cloud platform that realizes the promise of Teleport as a SaaS product. The team is focused on scalability, security, and analytics of Teleport on our Cloud platform. They build multi-cluster Kubernetes controllers, networking services, platform monitoring tools, and more. We strongly encourage you to explore our [GitHub Repo](https://github.com/gravitational) to get a taste of what we are building.

## What You'll do

- You will work on problems ranging from networking and performance to security and integrations with external systems.
- Design, develop, and ship outstanding, high-quality products. A sample of potential projects:
- BEAMS, Cloud Hypervisor-based, Kata container, agentic runtime platform
- Multi-cluster Kubernetes operators for managing Teleport at scale
- Zero-downtime upgrades for services with long-lived tunnels
- Write most of the code in Go.
- Closely collaborate with other teams at Teleport
- 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
- Strong expertise with Kubernetes, including experience writing controllers and extending Kubernetes via APIs.
- Extensive experience developing scalable, reliable, and performant systems.
- Strong software-related security experience and strong interest in security space.
- Proficiency with AWS and other cloud services.
- Linux systems engineering experience.
- Networking experience.
- Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to master new technologies.
- Transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset.

## Nice to have

- Significant contributions in Open Source is a big plus.
- Knowledge of Envoy and Cilium
- Cryptography engineering experience

## How We Hire

Our process is designed to be straightforward and respectful of your time. We skip performative rounds and focus on what matters: understanding how you think and what you can do. For this role, we use a take-home challenge that mirrors real work at Teleport — on your time, your way. You'll have support from the team throughout.

- Zoom meeting with a Teleport recruiter. You’ll learn about the company, our products, compensation philosophy, interview process, and key requirements.
- Zoom meeting with the Hiring Manager. The Hiring Manager will walk you through the coding challenge and answer your questions.
- Coding challenge collaboration. The day after your meeting with the Hiring Manager, you join a Slack channel and complete a [coding challenge in Go](https://github.com/gravitational/careers/blob/main/challenges/systems/challenge-1.md) using GitHub. The challenge usually takes about 2 weeks and ends with a Zoom meeting with the Hiring Manager and a member of the interview team to review your solution.
- If your challenge solution meets our bar, you'll receive an offer to join Teleport.

## #LT-LT1

## Why Teleport

You're joining a company where the problem is real, the team is small, and your work shows up directly in the product. We're not a big company, you won't get lost in a crowd. You'll have the freedom and autonomy to do what you're great at, alongside teammates who care about doing it right and want to see you succeed. The work is collaborative, there's real room to grow, and the mission is one worth showing up for. Remote-first and globally distributed, we're genuinely passionate about what we're building.

The Benefits At Teleport, we believe your career is more important than a list of perks. That's why we focus on making your day-to-day the best it can be — giving you the autonomy, access, and support to do the best work of your career.

- Extensive health coverage
- Annual expense budget
- Rest and recovery policies that maximize your ability to recharge
- Investment in your future with retirement savings plans
- 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.

Candidate Privacy Notice: For information about our collection and processing of job applicant personal data for this position, please see our Job Applicant Privacy Policy and Notice of Collection at [goteleport.com/legal/apply/job-applicant/](http://goteleport.com/legal/apply/job-applicant/)

## About Teleport

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Teleport provides a unified identity layer for infrastructure, securing access for humans, machines, and AI agents with cryptographic identity and just-in-time privileges.
- **Entity Type**: Private (valued at US$1.1bn; venture-backed)
- **Headquarters**: Oakland, California, United States (global remote team)
- **Founded**: Not explicitly stated in provided sources (industry background suggests ~2015)
- **Founders**: Ev Kontsevoy (CEO), Alexander Klizhentas (CTO), Taylor Wakefield (COO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Infrastructure security, identity and access management (IAM), privileged access management (PAM)
- **Target customers**: Enterprise B2B – engineering, platform, and security teams at large organizations (e.g., NASDAQ, Bloomberg)
- **Mission/purpose**: “We make trusted computing simple” – modernizing identity, access, and policy for infrastructure to improve engineering velocity and resiliency against human factors and compromise.

## Products & Services
- **Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform**: A unified identity layer that replaces SSH keys, VPNs, and static credentials with ephemeral, cryptographically-backed access. Supports SSH, Kubernetes, databases, web applications, and agentic AI workloads. Available as open-source and commercial SaaS/self-hosted.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: US$1.1bn (stated on Teleport’s benefits page) [goteleport.com/about/benefits](https://goteleport.com/about/benefits/)
- **Key Metric**: Over 600 enterprise customers; 5,000+ members in the open-source community [goteleport.com](https://goteleport.com/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: “Backed by leading investors” – specific names not listed in provided sources. Customers include NASDAQ and Bloomberg.
- **Growth Signals**: Fast-growing company with a 4.6/5 rating on Gartner Peer Reviews; claims 80% reduction in time spent troubleshooting access issues and 100% elimination of standing privileges for customers. Actively expanding into AI infrastructure identity (agentic control, LLMs, MCP tools).

## Competitive Advantages
- **No credentials to compromise**: Cryptographic identity rooted in hardware; no shared secrets or static credentials.
- **Ephemeral / just-in-time privileges**: Reduces attack surface by eliminating standing privilege.
- **Unified identity for humans, machines, and AI agents**: Fragmentation solved in one platform.
- **Strong open-source community**: 5,000+ contributors and community members, driving adoption and innovation.
- **Engineering-first design**: Built by engineers for engineers, with emphasis on simplicity and velocity.

## Strategic Focus
- **Contain and control agentic AI**: Extending identity and access control to AI agents, LLMs, and MCP tooling in production infrastructure.
- **Zero-trust infrastructure access**: Continued replacement of VPNs, jump boxes, and legacy PAM with a unified identity layer.
- **Global scaling**: Hiring top talent worldwide to support a growing customer base (NASSAQ, Bloomberg, etc.) and expanding use cases.

## Why Work Here
- **Equity for all employees**: Every role receives equity; current valuation $1.1bn with opportunities to release equity [goteleport.com/about/benefits](https://goteleport.com/about/benefits/)
- **Benefits**: Medical, dental, vision, mental health (Headspace), minimum 4 weeks annual leave, 12 weeks parental leave, $4,800 yearly wellness benefit, 401k matching, home office stipend, internet/phone allowance [goteleport.com/careers](https://goteleport.com/careers/)
- **Culture**:
  - Remote-first / global; headquarters in Oakland but employees worldwide
  - Senior, autonomous team – “we only hire the smartest people in security”
  - Behaviors: builders, start simple and iterate, value each other’s time, assume charity, be drivers not passengers [goteleport.com/careers/culture](https://goteleport.com/careers/culture/)
  - Interview process: no live coding or whiteboarding; work-sample-based assessments
- **Engineering culture**: Designed by engineers for engineers; strong focus on open source, security, and solving complex infrastructure problems.

## Sources
1. [goteleport.com](https://goteleport.com/) – Homepage and product overview
2. [goteleport.com/about](https://goteleport.com/about/) – About page (founders, headquarters, culture)
3. [goteleport.com/careers](https://goteleport.com/careers/) – Careers page (benefits, equity, work environment)
4. [goteleport.com/careers/culture](https://goteleport.com/careers/culture/) – Culture page (behaviors, hiring philosophy)
5. [goteleport.com/about/benefits](https://goteleport.com/about/benefits/) – Benefits page (valuation, equity details, perks)

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