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# Remote Senior Backend Software Engineer - London

- **Company:** Teleport
- **Location:** Blackburn, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £180,880.0 - £327,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Proxy Servers, Systems Engineering, Databases, Linux, Open Source Technology, Systems Integration, Backend
- **Published:** June 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/remote-senior-backend-software-engineer-london-blackburn-lancashire/2835116370-2/

## About the Role

* Go or Rust experience
 * Linux systems engineering
 * Cryptography engineering experience is a plus

## Description

We are looking for product-focused systems engineers to work on Teleport itself.
You will work on problems ranging from networking and performance to security and integrations with external systems.
You will work on the full product lifecycle from working with customers to understand their problems, writing RFDs for your proposed design, implementation, testing, and documentation.
Teleport is an open core project and most of the code you will write will be open source and written in Go (or Rust).

Projects you may work on

 * Building backend integrations with cloud provider's managed databases.
 * Working on scalability and resiliency of clusters with 10K+ nodes.
 * Implementing advanced HTTPS proxy with identity aware access control.
 * Building hardened security for Linux and Mac users.


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