Unified Identity Securing Classic and AI Infrastructure

Teleport, the AI Infrastructure Identity Company, prepares organizations for an AI future by establishing a unified identity layer for infrastructure, with humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents secured cryptographically with a hardware root of trust rather than vulnerable credentials. By replacing fragmented identity and access management systems with Infrastructure Identity, Teleport scales zero trust across cloud and on-prem environments, eliminating the complexity and risk created by identity fragmentation and credential sprawl. Teleport protects infrastructure from identity attacks, accelerates engineering by reducing infrastructure complexity, and secures non-deterministic agentic workflows. Headquartered in Oakland, CA, Teleport operates globally, with industry-leading customers such as Nasdaq, IBM, Doordash, and Elastic.

Our Vision

Today's computing environments have too much complexity, too many network boundaries, and too little trust. Complexity slows engineers down and leads to human errors. Complex systems can’t be secure despite the red tape of bureaucracy. We make trusted computing simple. This gives engineers the freedom to move and build a better future.

Why Teleport

Teleport addresses the overlooked intersection between cybersecurity and infrastructure—an area companies have historically tried to manage through a fragmented mix of tools like PAM, network-centric controls, and fragmented secrets management. This approach was already inefficient, but it fundamentally breaks down in the era of AI.

AI changes the landscape in three critical ways. First, non-human, machine, and AI identities now outnumber human ones, driving massive secrets sprawl while worsening anonymity. Second, anonymity is incompatible with AI workloads: these systems are inherently non-deterministic, operate across many services and environments, and therefore require strong identity, continuous trust, and end-to-end visibility to function safely and correctly. Third, the non-deterministic nature of AI makes reliability and scalability non-negotiable—systems must be resilient, observable, and with access control guardrails, because failures and unexpected behavior cannot be handled with static controls or manual intervention.

Solving this problem requires a fundamentally different approach: a unified identity layer that spans machines, workloads, humans, and agents. Identity becomes the security control plane that replaces network location and long-lived secrets as the basis of trust. Ephemeral privileges are critical in this model—privileges must be granted just-in-time, limited to the task at hand, and automatically expire, dramatically reducing blast radius in systems where behavior cannot be fully predicted. Finally, real-time intelligence is essential: in fast-moving, AI-driven environments, access decisions must continuously adapt to context, behavior, and system state, rather than relying on static policies defined in advance.

Teleport addresses the growing gap between today’s cyber and infrastructure security posture and what modern, AI-driven systems actually require. As AI systems proliferate, attack surfaces and pathways multiply, giving adversaries unprecedented leverage. The result is an inflection point: without re-anchoring security and infrastructure around identity, real-time trust, and ephemeral privileges, the volume and impact of security breaches will only accelerate.

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

Teleport Cloud takes our traditionally open-source and enterprise access plane and provides a SaaS option for our customers to adopt.

As such, our team is building our production and software as a service infrastructure from scratch. We tackle the hard problems that allow our customers to trust us for secure and reliable access to their infrastructure. We are constantly investing in our security posture, whether by red-teaming, security audits, better tooling, audit, and more

Excellent security is table stakes; a security breach can compromise our customers' infrastructure. We must also balance security with maintaining productivity and building a compelling product offering for our customers.

If you're security-minded and live the production mindset, this role might be for you.

Most of the code you will write will be written in Go. We strongly encourage you to explore our GitHub Repo to get a taste of what we are building.

Important information

We require to be in-person in our Oakland, CA, office for the onboarding week.
We conduct background checks.

Responsibilities

Re-engineer the core teleport product to scale globally and optimize routing latency for teams distributed around the world
Re-write portions of the core Teleport product to enable our goals for the cloud product
Build out our monitoring and observability stack to alert us to production issues and minimize false positives so we can all get a good sleep at night
Work on automation to tackle and eliminate the highest toil activities
Execute on traditional operation challenges, such as patching, scaling, backup and restore, disaster recovery, and more
Investigate the outages and incidents our customers experience with our product
Participate in the on-call rotation to ensure 24/7/365 system uptime.

Requirements

Willingness to collaboratively work with Teleports’ engineers on coding challenge in Go as part of the interview process.
Strong experience in Linux systems, networking, containers, and troubleshooting.
Have solid Go and Kubernetes development experience, building automation, modifying controllers, and contributing to the product codebase.
Operate and support the observability platform to maintain visibility and reliability.
Own and operate the runtime of a secure, production distributed system.
Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to master new technologies.
As we are a startup, you should be comfortable changing the area of focus and working directly with customers.
Transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset.
Excellent communication skills.

Interview Process

We’ve designed a unique interview process that gives you the opportunity to learn about the company and collaborate with our engineering team on a project. Candidates who enjoy the process often stay with Teleport for a long time.

What to expect once you apply:

Zoom meeting with a Teleport recruiter
You’ll learn about the company, our products, compensation philosophy, interview process, and key requirements.
Zoom meeting with the Hiring Manager
The Hiring Manager will walk you through the coding challenge and answer your questions.
Coding challenge collaboration
The day after your meeting with the Hiring Manager, you join a Slack channel and submit a coding challenge in Go/Make/Helm using GitHub.

The Benefits

While many companies flaunt their benefits and perks to convince you to join their company, we believe your career is more important than that. That’s why we focus on making your day-to-day the best it can be while empowering you to achieve your goals and aspirations.

What does that mean?

It means you’ll have the autonomy to make your own decisions and focus on what’s important to you and your role.
It means having access to a senior team that supports you and wants to see you succeed.
You’ll have a smart team you can learn from, collaborate with, and grow with.
It means being able to make an impact and have a voice in the future of the feature, product or company direction. We don’t just leave you to focus on a niche. We allow you to spread your wings and take advantage of opportunities, challenging projects and exciting problems.
It means removing the bureaucracy and red tape that stifles innovation while giving you access to all the information you need to build and take action more quickly.
It means allowing you to have the career you’ve always wanted today, rather than having to “earn your stripes” and wait for the right moment. If you’re good enough, you’re good enough.

But we don’t stop there.

In addition to the career opportunities at Teleport, we offer a whole range of benefits that help you to maximize your future, including:

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

Do you have what it takes?

Get to use (and know) Teleport through our unique interview process

At Teleport, we do things a bit differently. And when we say we only hire top talent, we actually mean it. Because of this, our interview process is different too - and we’re proud of it. We let your work do the talking. We don’t go in for six rounds of interviews, live whiteboard or live-coding. We don’t hire people that can talk a good game. We only want the best. And for that, we need to see what you can do, in your own time, in your own way. For real.

But interviews are a two-way street. Through the project, you’ll get a real taste of life at Teleport, including:

We’re flexible - you’ll have plenty of time to complete your project, if life gets in the way, that’s ok. We can - work around you.
We give you autonomy - you’ll have the space and freedom to figure things out, make decisions, and problem-solve.
We’re collaborative - Got questions?
We have answers. You’ll have support from your team - the one you’ll be working with day in day out if you’re successful in getting the role.
We progress careers - During the project, see how much you learn. That’s what working at Teleport is like. We like learning, on the job. All-the-time.
We can move fast (if you can) - two weeks sound like a long time? No problem? Early submissions are fine, and we’ll keep the process moving.

Think you’ve got what it takes? We’d love to see it! Unconvinced? We can guarantee three things:

It’ll challenge you.
You'll learn a lot.
If you love the process, you'll love working at Teleport.

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