Senior Backend Software Engineer - Identity Security

Teleport is the AI Infrastructure Identity Company, preparing organizations for an AI future by establishing a unified identity layer for infrastructure. The Senior Backend Software Engineer 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.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Involved in the entire product development cycle, from working with customers to understand security needs, to writing RFDs for design ideas, to implementing distributed systems in Go
• Scaling Teleport’s audit log and event pipeline for high-volume use cases
• Developing session recording and summarization features for SSH, Kubernetes, databases, and Windows recordings
• Developing fine-grained access control visualizations and identity workflows
• Optimizing Identity Security to be more efficient by improving backend performance, indexing, filtering, and policy evaluation

Requirements:

• Go or Rust experience
• Linux systems engineering
• Cryptography engineering experience is a plus