Senior Backend Engineer - Performance - UK
Teleport · Remote · United Kingdom (Remote) · London, England ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Senior Backend Engineer
- Fully remote
- Go + Linux
- Open source focus
- UK based
Join Teleport as a product-focused systems engineer working on the core product. You will address challenges in performance, scalability, security, and networking while collaborating with customers to solve real-world infrastructure problems.
Most of your work will be open source, written in Go, and impact how humans, machines, and AI agents securely interact. You will manage the full product lifecycle from design and implementation to testing and documentation.
What you'll do
- Become an expert on scalability, performance, and reliability for large deployments
- Design, develop, and ship high-quality products
- Write the majority of code in Go
- Collaborate with teams on scalability and performance matters
- Work directly with customers to diagnose and fix performance issues
- Manage full product lifecycle including design, testing, and documentation
What you'll need
- Extensive experience with Go programming
- Proven track record building scalable, reliable distributed systems
- Linux systems engineering experience
- Knowledge of Identity Management, RBAC, ABAC, and zero-trust models
- Builder mentality with experience creating zero-to-one products
- Willingness to complete a Go coding challenge during hiring process
Nice to have
- Significant contributions to Open Source projects
- Intellectual curiosity and willingness to master new technologies
Stack
- Go
- Linux
- GitHub
- Slack
- Zoom
How you'll work
- Remote-first and globally distributed team
- Role based in the UK
What you get
- Extensive health coverage
- Annual expense budget
- Rest and recovery policies
- Retirement savings plans
- Professional development opportunities
Hiring process
- Video meeting with a recruiter to discuss role and company
- Video meeting with Hiring Manager to review coding challenge details
- Two-week take-home coding challenge in Go via GitHub
- Zoom review of solution with Hiring Manager and interview team
- Offer extended if challenge solution meets standards