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Staff Backend Engineer

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Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Wed, Nov 04, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

To support the development of Teleport's Core Product, the full-time Staff Backend Engineer will focus on performance, scalability, and security, working remotely to design, develop, and implement high-quality software solutions primarily in Go.

Key responsibilities
  • Become an expert on scalability, performance, and reliability of Teleport in large deployments
  • Design, develop, and ship outstanding, high-quality products while collaborating closely with other teams
  • Lead a distributed team of engineers and work directly with customers to diagnose and remediate performance issues
Required qualifications
  • Extensive experience with Go programming language
  • Proven track record in developing scalable, reliable, and performant distributed systems
  • Strong team leadership and engineering management experience
  • Experience in Linux systems engineering
  • Knowledge of Identity Management, RBAC, ABAC, and zero-trust security models

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