Senior Backend Engineer - Application Access
- Location
- Remote (US)
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Director
- Listed
- 23 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- Go
- Linux systems engineering
- OAuth
- HTTP proxying
Also useful
- cryptography engineering
Stated benefits & perks
- Health
- Retirement savings
About the Role
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 clusters with 10K+ nodes.
- Implementing advanced HTTPS proxy with identity aware access control.
- Building hardened security for Linux and Mac users.
What We're Looking For
- Go experience
- Linux systems engineering
- Web Fundamentals (cookie security, HTTP streaming and proxying)
- OAuth experience
Nice to Have
- Cryptography engineering experience is a plus
How We Hire
- You will join 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 join a Slack channel and submit a coding challenge in Go using Github
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
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.
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.
Equal opportunity and legal notices
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.
From Teleport's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 17, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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