Senior Backend Engineer - Application Access

Role Description

We are looking for product-oriented backend engineers to join our Application Access (MCP) engineering team here 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.

What You'll Do

• Building backend integrations with cloud provider's managed databases.
• Working on scalability and resiliency of clusters with 10K+ nodes.
• Implementing advanced proxy with identity aware access control.
• Building hardened security for Linux and Mac users.

Qualifications

• Go experience
• Linux systems engineering
• Web Fundamentals (cookie security, streaming and proxying)
• OAuth experience

Requirements

• Cryptography engineering experience is a plus

Benefits

• 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