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 security-focused software engineers to work on Teleport’s Security Engineering and Defense and Intelligence teams.
Security Engineering
You will work on problems ranging from cryptography and networking to security automation and AI agents.
You will work throughout the Engineering team on the full product lifecycle from reviewing RFDs for proposed designs, code review, vulnerability testing, and documentation.
Teleport is an open core project and most of the code you review and write will be open source and written in Go (or Rust).
Defense and Intelligence
You will work with our detection and response stack: e.g. Panther, Wiz, Jamf Protect, and Temporal to stop breaches.
You will solve for false positives, detection coverage, and response automation by writing code and building AI agents.
You will work with your security teammates and the broader engineering team to triage and tune detection and response logic with a tight feedback loop.
Projects you may work on
- Reviewing RFDs from engineers on a variety of proposed projects for security and quality.
- Pairing with the Cloud team to deploy service control policies (SCPs) in AWS to prevent undesired configurations.
- Hunting for vulnerabilities using both traditional scanning tools and LLM / AI tools in innovative and creative ways.
- Automating routine security and compliance processes to increase effectiveness and decrease busywork.
- Implementing and maintaining log pipelines for valuable event data sources like critical SaaS apps or endpoint telemetry.
- Engaging with the best red teams in the world to test and harden our detection and response capabilities.
- Building response automation to reduce the risk of advanced attacks against Teleport systems.
- Contributing to the Teleport product where we can improve the ability to defend for both us and our customers.
- Ensuring that nobody (including you) is overwhelmed with false positive / noisy alerts through a tight feedback loop.
Requirements
- Go or Rust experience
- Security experience is a plus
- 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.
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