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Senior Site Reliability Engineer - US

Goteleport
CompanyGoteleport
CategoryEngineering
LocationUnited States (Remote)
RemoteRemote
EmploymentNot stated
LevelSenior
SalaryUSD 222k–342k
Posted6 Jul 2026
Last verified6 Aug 2026
SourceEmployer ATS (ashby)
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Description
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 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. 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. Most of the code you will write will be written in Go. We strongly encourage you to explore our GitHub Repo https://github.com/gravitational 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. WHAT YOU'LL DO - 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. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - Willingness to collaboratively work with Teleports’ engineers on coding challenge in Go https://github.com/gravitational/careers/blob/main/challenges/sre/challenge.md as part of the interview process. - 5+ years of progressive experience in Software Engineering and/or SRE/DevOps roles. - Strong experience in Linux systems, networking, containers, and troubleshooting. - Have solid Go and Kubernetes development experience. - Strong experience developing scripts, automation, or lightweight programs, submitting patches to the product codebase, or building tooling that incorporates AI agents into operational workflows. - AWS Cloud experience is preferred, GCP experience is acceptable. - Systems Observability tools: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki etc. - Operate and support the observability platform to maintain visibility and reliability. - Experience operate in a team where sound security choices are critical, and where reasoning about correctness and system invariants (e.g. formal or property-based methods) is valued. - Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to master new technologies. - Transparency, honesty, and a no-ego mindset. - Excellent communication skills. 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. 1. Zoom meeting with a Teleport recruiter. You’ll learn about the company, our products, compensation philosophy, interview process, and key req