Golang Teleport Jobs Paying 50,000 USD a Year

Job Description

Teleport is an open core remote-first company headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Our mission is to empower engineers to securely access any computing resource anywhere in the world.

Modern computing environments are growing bigger and more complex. This complexity increases the attack surface area and slows developers down. Our Access Plane technology empowers engineers and security professionals to easily access servers, Kubernetes, databases and web applications across all environments.

Backed by Y-Combinator, S28 Capital, and Kleiner Perkins, we have raised over $60MM and are growing quickly. Our customers include leading technology companies such as Nasdaq, Snowflake Square, Gitlab, IBM, and others.

Our commitment to the world is to combine an amazing developer experience with best-in-class security in everything we make. We value solving hard problems for our customers and making our lives interesting while doing it.

You will be joining engineering team of Teleport, unified access plane for SSH, Kubernetes and Database infrastructure.

Nasdaq, SumoLogic and Samsung Electronics trust Teleport to secure access to their infrastructure.

Teleport is an open source project, written in Golang with web-based UIs in JavaScript with React.

Here is why we love this job ourselves, and hope you will enjoy it too:

• The range of problem solving includes networking, performance, security and integrations with existing systems.
• Build and test cycles are measured in seconds, integration tests are running in minutes.
• Most of the code you will write will be open source.
• Our products are loved by their users, you’ll get to talk to some of them on Slack.
• We practice thorough code reviews and have an open design process.

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.

What to expect once you apply:

• We will send you a 20-30 minute programming quiz
• 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 Golang or Rust using Github

Requirements:

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

Joining a startup, you should be comfortable changing the area of focus and working directly with customers.

We offer competitive compensation and benefits, platinum-level healthcare insurance, 401k matching, and a great place to work.

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.

Job Description

About you:

You understand how computers work and what role an operating system plays. You know why the Linux kernel is written in C and not any other language. You have a favorite file system, you know what a syscall is and you are comfortable exploring /proc and /sys. You like using Go every day, are not afraid of Makefiles and you enjoy when thousands of servers bend to your will.

You should also be comfortable joining an early stage company with a dynamic future. We offer a great salary, but expect you to value the equity as well. In return we will be very transparent with you about the company finances and outlook. You are joining a founding team and we want you to enjoy the ride.

If you are this kind of person, here is what you will be working on:

• Building solutions using Go, systemd and runc and Kubernetes.
• Designing and building new open source products that you can be proud of like Teleport.
• Talking to customers and converting complex requirements into simple and elegant solutions.

About Gravitational:

Gravitational, an early stage systems & cloud startup, is looking for ambitious and talented people. We are well-funded by fantastic Silicon Valley investors. We are an experienced team: we founded Mailgun which was acquired by Rackspace, we created Vulcand and some other cool stuff at Rackspace and are authors of Teleport and Telekube.

We are hackers. We love Linux and low level systems programming and we love helping open source communities and other engineers to get things done.

We are also dedicated to our friends, families, and hobbies outside of work. Our past experiences building companies taught us about the importance of life and work balance. It matters even more when you are building a lasting company, like Gravitational.

About the tech:

You'll be using Go as your primary weapon, but we expect you to be comfortable reading and navigating C code bases.

You don’t have to be an expert in these things, but you should be ready and excited to become one:

• Kubernetes and containers
• Ansible
• AWS management, Terraform
• Linux administration, Linux networking