Senior Software Engineer, Security

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.

Go or Rust experience

Security experience

Cryptography engineering experience

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 in Go using Github

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.