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goteleport - Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Scalability - UK

Remote - United Kingdom (Remote)3d ago

Remote Senior EMEA Backend Engineer Senior Backend Developer Go GitHub

Requirements

• Willingness to work collaboratively with Teleport's engineers on coding challenge in Go https://github.com/gravitational/careers/blob/main/challenges/systems/challenge-1.md as part of the interview process. • Builder mentality and experience -- you love building zero-to-one products • Extensive experience developing scalable, reliable, and performant distributed systems and platforms. • Knowledge of Identity Management, RBAC, ABAC, and zero-trust security models. • Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to master new technologies. • Transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset. • Significant contributions in Open Source is a big plus. • 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.

Responsibilities

• Become an expert on scalability, performance, and reliability of Teleport in large deployments. • Design, develop, and ship outstanding, high-quality products. • Write most of the code in Go. • Closely collaborate with other teams at Teleport on matters related to scalability and performance. • Work directly with our customers to diagnose and remediate performance issues. • Grow your technical expertise. • 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

Benefits

• 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.