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Senior Backend Software Engineer - Toronto

CompanyTeleport
LocationToronto, Ontario, Canada
TypeRemote, Onsite
Sub
Software Engineer
Backend Developer

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


We are looking for product-focused systems engineers to work on Teleport itself.You will work on problems ranging from networking and performance to security and integrations with external systems.You will work on the full product lifecycle from working with customers to understand their problems, writing RFDs for your proposed design, implementation, testing, and documentation.Teleport is an open core project and most of the code you will write will be open source and written in Go (or Rust).

Here are the projects you may be working on:


  • Building backend integrations with cloud provider's managed databases.
  • Working on scalability and resiliency of clusters with 10K+ nodes.
  • Implementing advanced HTTPS proxy with identity aware access control.
  • Building hardened security for Linux and Mac users.

Requirements


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

Interview Process


  • You will join 30 minute intro call and we will walk you through the compensation, interview process and requirements
  • You join a Slack channel and submit a coding challenge in Go using Github

Benefits


  • Extensive health coverage
  • Annual expense budget
  • Rest & recovery policies that maximize leave and your ability to recharge
  • Investment in your future with retirement savings plans
  • Equity in a US $1.1-bn business
  • 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 see our Job Applicant Privacy Policy and Notice of Collection at https://goteleport.com/legal/apply/job-applicant/Apply for this job

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