Remote Senior Backend Software Engineer

Salary: £60,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

• Work on product-focused systems engineering for our Teleport platform
• Solve problems across networking, performance, security, and integrations with external systems
• Work through the full product lifecycle, including customer discovery, RFDs, design, implementation, testing, and documentation
• Build backend integrations with cloud providers managed databases
• Improve scalability and resiliency of clusters with 10K+ nodes
• Implement advanced HTTPS proxy capabilities with identity-aware access control
• Build hardened security for Linux and Mac users

Technologies

• Backend
• Cloud
• Cryptography
• Linux
• REST
• Rust
• Security
• DevOps
• GitHub
• Slack

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We are Teleport, the Infrastructure Identity Company, modernizing identity, access, and policy for infrastructure to improve engineering velocity and the resiliency of critical infrastructure against human factors and compromise. We are a fast-growing, well-funded Y Combinator company that values craftsmanship, work/life balance, humility, honesty, and transparency. This is an open core role, and most of the code you write will be open source and written in Go or Rust. We offer extensive health coverage, an annual expense budget, rest and recovery policies, retirement savings plans, equity in a US$1.1bn business, and professional development opportunities. The role includes a salary range that varies by level and location, and our hiring process includes an intro call and a coding challenge.

last updated 28 week of 2026