Company Overview
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.
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.
Teleport is the Infrastructure Identity Company, modernizing identity, access, and policy for infrastructure to improve engineering velocity and resiliency against human error and compromise. The Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform implements trusted computing at scale, with unified cryptographic identities for humans, machines and workloads, endpoints, infrastructure assets, and AI agents. Our identity-everywhere approach vertically integrates access management, zero trust networking, identity governance, and identity security into a single platform, eliminating overhead and operational silos.
Role Overview
This is a senior engineering role with a heavy product focus. Strong candidates for this role should possess a combination of technical and analytical skills. Ideal candidates are extremely data-driven and results-oriented.In this role, you will partner with engineering on the direction, user experience and revenue of Teleport Beams, our new AI-focused product. In this position, you will:
- Report directly to the CTO and join the R&D leadership team.
- Partner with the engineering team.
- Interview customers and prospects, gather data and user-stories to drive the roadmap.
- Hack on the product alongside the engineering on hackathons.
- Work with product marketing on adoption and revenue of the Zero Trust Access offering.
Requirements
- Ability to work in the US or Canada without a visa.
- 3+ years of software engineering experience.
- Experience with front-end web development in TypeScript, and back-end development in Go.
- Strong interest and aptitude for product thinking.
- Ability to own outcomes rather than tasks.
- Excellent written communication skills.
Application Process
- You will join a 30-minute intro call with a recruiter.
- You will join a 30-minute call with the hiring manager.
- You will join a 45-minute call with two senior members of the Teleport team.
- You will join a Slack channel and submit a coding challenge in Go and TypeScript using GitHub.
Potential Responsibilities
- Looking at Teleport Zero Trust product usage data and formulating experiments to improve conversion rates.
- Implementing (i.e., hands-on-coding) one of the experiments identified above and looking at the results.
- Working directly with the Engineering team to implement larger code changes motivated by results from past experiments.
- Periodically demoing the product to customers and prospects to sharpen product messaging.
- Collaborating with the marketing team on the product launches, updates, and messaging.
Benefits
Teleport focuses on empowering employees to achieve their goals and aspirations, providing:- 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.
