Senior Backend Engineer - Machine & Workload Identity

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, and Elastic to secure infrastructure for an AI world. About the Role The Machine & Workload Identity team at Teleport is on a mission to eliminate long-lived secrets for non-human identities. Today, machines, workloads, and AI agents routinely authenticate using static credentials that are difficult to rotate, easy to leak, and impossible to audit. We replace them with short-lived cryptographic credentials, built on workload attestation and open standards like SPIFFE. We're looking for a Senior Backend (Go) engineer to join the team. You will be involved in the entire product development cycle, from working with customers to understand their needs, to writing RFDs for your design ideas, to implementing distributed systems in Go. You will work closely with other engineers, product managers, and security researchers to design features that securely deliver cryptographic identity to machines, workloads, and AI agents at scale. What You'll Do - Designing and implementing novel solutions at the cutting edge of Agentic Identity. - Building tooling to enable customers to efficiently onboard and manage identity for fleets of machines, workloads, and AI agents. - Developing attestation methods for securely identifying machines, workloads, and AI agents without the need for secrets. - Optimizing credential issuance mechanisms to function reliably at the scale of hundreds of thousands of machines. - You will play a key role in shaping how modern infrastructure access is secured, audited, and managed at scale. What We're Looking For - Go or Rust experience - Linux systems engineering Nice to Have - Cryptography engineering experience - Experience with SPIFFE 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 the team throughout. - You will join a 30 minute intro call and we will walk you through the compensation, interview process and requirements - You will join a 30 minute call with the hiring manager, and we will walk you through the take home exercise and help answer questions - You join a Slack channel and submit a coding challenge https://github.com/gravitational/careers/tree/main/challenges 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