About the role
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, IBM, DoorDash, and Elastic to secure infrastructure for an AI world.
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the Role We are looking for product-focused systems engineers and to work on Teleport Core Product. You will focus on problems related to application security for Teleport. You will implement security controls and work with security researchers to find and fix security vulnerabilities. Teleport is an open core project, and most of the code you will write will be open source and written in Go.
What You'll do Become an expert on everything related to application security at Teleport. 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 application security. Master and thoughtfully apply technological advancements in the AI space. Grow your technical expertise.
What We're Looking For Willingness to work collaboratively with Teleport's engineers on coding challenge in Go as part of the interview process. Extensive Go experience. Extensive experience developing scalable distributed systems and platforms with the focus on application security. Linux systems engineering experience. Strong 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.
Nice to have Secure design and threat modeling experience Vulnerability research experience Applied Cryptography knowledge Significant contributions in Open Source. How We Hire 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