Threat Hunter

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, IBM, and Elastic to secure infrastructure for an AI world.

About the Role

We are looking for a Threat Hunter to work on Teleport's Defense and Intelligence team.

You will develop a strong understanding of our cloud and corporate environments and use that knowledge to find active threats and inform our defense strategy.

You will work with our detection and response stack: e.g. Panther, Wiz, Jamf Protect, and Temporal to investigate potential breaches.

You will work with your security teammates, the Cloud team, and IT to provide feedback on our cloud architecture and detection and response capabilities.

What You'll Do

• Use threat intelligence to proactively hunt for bad actors in our environment.
• Develop hypotheses for attack scenarios and use our detection stack to validate them.
• Discover gaps in our detection coverage to inform tactical and strategic improvements.
• Hunt for bad actors abusing Teleport's platform to facilitate their attacks, discover patterns to inform prevention efforts.

What We're Looking For

• Strong AWS security experience
• Experience with macOS corporate environments
• Experience with Google Workspace

Nice to Have

• Go or Rust experience
• GCP 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.

• You will join a 30 minute intro call and we will walk you through the compensation, interview process and requirements.
• You will join a 30 minute call with the hiring manager, and we will walk you through the take home exercise and help answer questions
• You'll join a Slack channel and submit your challenge using GitHub.

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.

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