Teleport

• Work on problems ranging from networking and performance to security and integrations with external systems to the securing Agentic AI for enterprise. • Write most of the code in Go. • Contribute critical components to the projects like multi-cluster Kubernetes operators for managing Teleport at scale, zero-downtime services upgrade, evolve the global ingress stack with Envoy, Gateway API, and ALPN routing, building the trusted runtimes for infrastructure agents (our latest product - BEAMS), and others. • Own the outcomes and deliver on ambitious quarterly goals. • Closely collaborate with other teams in the Cloud Organization. • Master and thoughtfully apply technological advancements in AI space. • Grow your technical expertise.

• Serve as legal advisor to Product and Engineering, providing timely guidance during product development cycles. • Help shape and implement Teleport's AI governance framework, including use-case risk evaluation standards, and documentation practices. • Contribute to cross-functional workstreams to develop and implement internal, scalable processes and policies for responsible AI use, working closely with engineering, security, and product leadership. • Advise on AI-related intellectual property matters, including licensing and data usage. • Advise on open source licensing models and the legal considerations relevant to open source software development and distribution. • Monitor and interpret evolving AI regulations and global privacy frameworks, including the EU AI Act, GDPR, and CCPA/CPRA, translating requirements into clear, actionable guidance for technical and business stakeholders. • Conduct privacy impact assessments (PIAs), data protection impact assessments (DPIAs), and AI risk analyses for new features and product lines. • Support data mapping, data subject requests, and data governance improvements across the product portfolio. • Draft, review, and negotiate data processing agreements (DPAs) and AI-specific addendums, serving as the escalation point for the commercial legal team on privacy and AI issues. • Perform due diligence on vendor compliance, and negotiate contracts to include robust data protection clauses. • Partner with Security on incident response and regulatory inquiries, including breach assessment and stakeholder notifications. • Develop internal playbooks, training programs, and policies, including privacy policies, terms of service, and DPAs, to build a culture of compliance and proactively address emerging risks. • Partner with security and engineering teams to support compliance certifications such as SOC 2, ISO 27001 and 27701, HIPAA and PCI from a privacy and legal perspective.

• Develop a strong understanding of our cloud and corporate environments and use that knowledge to find active threats and inform our defense strategy. • Work with our detection and response stack: e.g. Panther, Wiz, Jamf Protect, and Temporal to investigate potential breaches. • Provide feedback on our cloud architecture and detection and response capabilities. • Use threat intelligence to proactively hunt for bad actors in our environment. • Develop hypotheses for attack scenarios and use our detection stack to validate them. • Discover gaps in our detection coverage to inform tactical and strategic improvements. • Hunt for bad actors abusing Teleport’s platform to facilitate their attacks, discover patterns to inform prevention efforts.

Title: Senior Backend Software Engineer, Cloud Platform - US Location United States (Remote) Employment Type Full time Location Type Remote Department Engineering Compensation $222K – $342K • Offers Equity The cash compensation range for new hires in this role is between $222,000 and $342,000. The salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. 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. About Us Teleport is the Infrastructure Identity Company, modernizing identity, access, and policy for infrastructure, improving engineering velocity and resiliency of critical infrastructure against human factors and/or compromise. We are a fast-growing, well-funded Y-Combinator company. We value our craft, are strong supporters of work/life balance, and embrace a culture of humility, honesty, and transparency. About this job The Teleport Cloud Platform team architects a performant and scalable cloud platform that realizes the promise of Teleport as a SaaS product. The team is focused on scalability, security, and analytics of Teleport on our Cloud platform. They build multi-cluster Kubernetes controllers, networking services, platform monitoring tools, and more. You will work on problems ranging from networking and performance to security and integrations with external systems. Most of the code you will write will be written in Go. We strongly encourage you to explore our GitHub Repo to get a taste of what we are building. Important information - You must be a current resident of the US. - We require to be in-person in our Oakland, CA, office for the onboarding week. - We conduct background checks. A sample of recent projects: - Multi-cluster Kubernetes operators for managing Teleport at scale - Zero-downtime upgrades for services with long-lived tunnels - Global ingress stack with Envoy, Gateway API, and ALPN routing - Reduced onboarding time for new customer instances - Migration to EKS Requirements - Willingness to collaboratively work with Teleports’ engineers on coding challenge in Go as part of the interview process. - Extensive Go experience - Strong expertise with Kubernetes, including experience writing controllers and extending Kubernetes via APIs - Extensive experience developing scalable, reliable, and performant systems - Strong software-related security experience and strong interest in security space - Proficiency with AWS and other cloud services - Linux systems engineering experience - Networking experience - Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to master new technologies. - Transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset. Pluses - Knowledge of Envoy and Cilium - Cryptography engineering experience Interview Process We’ve designed a unique interview process that gives you the opportunity to learn about the company and collaborate with our engineering team on a project. Candidates who enjoy the process often stay with Teleport for a long time. What to expect once you apply: - Zoom meeting with a Teleport recruiter You’ll learn about the company, our products, compensation philosophy, interview process, and key requirements. - Zoom meeting with the Hiring Manager The Hiring Manager will walk you through the coding challenge and answer your questions. - Coding challenge collaboration The day after your meeting with the Hiring Manager, you join a Slack channel and submit a coding challenge in Go using GitHub. 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. 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 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. Candidate Privacy Notice: For information about our collection and processing of job applicant personal data for this position, please.

• Develop a strong understanding of our cloud and corporate infrastructure and use that knowledge to find gaps in our security posture. • When you find exploitation paths, work with the Defense and Intelligence team to add detections to Panther, Wiz, and Jamf. • Work with your security teammates and the Cloud team to provide feedback on our cloud architecture and detection and response logic. • Engage with the best red teams in the world on a regular basis to test our cloud security. • Plan and execute your own red team style cloud operations internally. • Discover and assist in triaging cloud security architecture and configuration flaws. • Review cloud architecture changes where your security expertise can add value.

• Define and run a repeatable GEO measurement framework across priority queries and personas, tracking Inclusion Rate, Narrative Fidelity, and Generative Share of Voice • Maintain prompt and query libraries and a testing cadence across LLM surfaces • Evaluate how Teleport is retrieved and described in AI outputs, identify coverage and framing gaps, and translate findings into prioritized, testable actions • Monitor the technical architecture of our martech stack for GEO opportunities and blockers, and eliminate the speed bumps that interfere with GEO effectiveness • Partner with Corporate Marketing on site structure, clarity, and referenceable content for retrievability • Partner with Product Marketing to reinforce precise, durable concepts across product language and documentation, and to increase citation-quality assets in owned channels • Partner with Demand Generation to align distribution to high-value narratives and extend GEO-optimized content into channels that influence retrieval • Identify and prioritize high-authority sources influencing LLM outputs, and expand Teleport’s presence across third-party publications, structured knowledge formats, and durable referenceable assets • Drive placement of Teleport’s ideas and data in sources LLMs retrieve and cite, prioritizing citation quality over volume, in partnership with Product Marketing, Demand Generation, and PR • Connect inputs, outputs, and outcomes across GEO metrics, feeding performance data back into message refinement, content prioritization, and distribution strategy • Establish a regular reporting cadence with measurable movement against goals

• Build user interfaces and backend APIs for Teleport • Work on the full product lifecycle including customer engagement, design, implementation, testing, and documentation

• The Teleport Cloud Platform team architects a performant and scalable cloud platform that realizes the promise of Teleport as a SaaS product. • The team is focused on scalability, security, and analytics of Teleport on our Cloud platform. • They build multi-cluster Kubernetes controllers, networking services, platform monitoring tools, and more. • You will work on problems ranging from networking and performance to security and integrations with external systems. • Most of the code you will write will be written in Go.

• Architect a performant and scalable cloud platform that realizes the promise of Teleport as a SaaS product. • Focus on scalability, security, and analytics of Teleport on our cloud platform. • Build multi-cluster Kubernetes controllers, networking services, platform monitoring tools, and more. • Work on problems ranging from networking and performance to security and integrations with external systems. • Write most of the code in Go and explore the GitHub repo for insights.

• The Core Tooling team contributes force multiplication efforts to help engineers developing Teleport and across the org. • This team is the backbone to ensuring the rest of the development team remains incredibly productive, and that we operate in the open, with an open source code base. • This team is responsible for the tooling necessary to build and release Teleport artifacts, including container images, AMIs, Helm Charts, and integration/distribution to package managers. • Most of the code you will write will be written in Go.