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Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Security - US

Build secure identity infrastructure for humans, machines, and AI agents

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Teleport, you will build and maintain the platform security systems that provide cryptographically secured identities for humans, machines, workloads, and AI agents. Your work will focus on improving engineering velocity while maintaining strong security boundaries in a remote-first, globally distributed environment. You will contribute to making trusted computing simple and scalable across infrastructure.

Why This Role?

Be part of solving one of the hardest problems in security: cryptographic identity for all workloads and AI agents

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and implement backend systems for cryptographic identity management
  • Develop platform security features that secure access for humans, machines, and AI agents
  • Improve engineering velocity by simplifying trusted computing workflows
  • Collaborate in a remote-first, globally distributed team to ship infrastructure software
  • Ensure security and scalability of identity infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments

Requirements

  • Strong backend engineering experience with focus on security or infrastructure systems
  • Experience building distributed systems or platform services at scale
  • Proficiency in Go, Rust, or similar systems programming languages
  • Deep understanding of authentication, authorization, and cryptographic principles
  • Ability to work effectively in a remote, asynchronous, global team environment

Required Skills

backend developmentsecuritypythongolangcloud securitybackend engineeringcryptographydistributed systemsGoRustplatform security

Indonesia Context

Working Hours Overlap:
Flexible — work your own hours
See remote (USD) vs local pay →

Keywords

senior backend engineerplatform securitycryptographic identityAI infrastructureremote-firstTeleport
View Original Description from Adzuna

Original description from Adzuna

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 …

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Company
Teleport
Source
Adzuna
Salary
Job Type
full time
Location
Remote · Open worldwide
Category
Seniority
senior
Posted
Jun 13, 2026

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