Senior Software Engineer, Security

Role Description

We are looking for security-focused software engineers to work on Teleport’s Security Engineering and Defense and Intelligence teams.

• Security Engineering:
  • Work on problems ranging from cryptography and networking to security automation and AI agents.
  • Engage throughout the Engineering team on the full product lifecycle from reviewing RFDs for proposed designs, code review, vulnerability testing, and documentation.
  • Most of the code you review and write will be open source and written in Go (or Rust).
• Defense and Intelligence:
  • Work with our detection and response stack: e.g. Panther, Wiz, Jamf Protect, and Temporal to stop breaches.
  • Address false positives, detection coverage, and response automation by writing code and building AI agents.
  • Triage and tune detection and response logic with a tight feedback loop.

What You'll Do:

• Review RFDs from engineers on a variety of proposed projects for security and quality.
• Pair with the Cloud team to deploy service control policies (SCPs) in AWS to prevent undesired configurations.
• Hunt for vulnerabilities using both traditional scanning tools and LLM / AI tools in innovative and creative ways.
• Automate routine security and compliance processes to increase effectiveness and decrease busywork.
• Implement and maintain log pipelines for valuable event data sources like critical SaaS apps or endpoint telemetry.
• Engage with the best red teams in the world to test and harden our detection and response capabilities.
• Build response automation to reduce the risk of advanced attacks against Teleport systems.
• Contribute to the Teleport product to improve the ability to defend for both us and our customers.
• Ensure that nobody (including you) is overwhelmed with false positive/noisy alerts through a tight feedback loop.

Qualifications

• Go or Rust experience

Requirements

• Security experience (Nice to Have)
• Cryptography engineering experience (Nice to Have)

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