Teleport

Teleport was founded in 2015. We help companies modernize their identity, access, and policy for infrastructure. Our platform unifies identity for humans, machines, and AI agents, securing both classic and AI infrastructure to speed up engineering and improve resilience. We specialize in Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, access, identity, security, and privileged access management within the software development industry.

Our Infrastructure Identity Platform offers Zero Trust Access to eliminate credentials and implement least privileged access. It also provides Machine & Workload Identity for securing inter-machine interactions, Identity Governance to harden and manage identities, and Identity Security to find and remove hidden risks. The platform gives instant web/CLI access with interactive session controls and audit reporting. It can also flag real-time anomalies as identities move across providers, code, and infrastructure.

Customers use Teleport to cut audit work by 80%, eliminate policy violations, reduce on/off-boarding time from days to minutes, and shorten forensic investigations from weeks to minutes. They also eliminate the burden of handling credentials. We can deploy on-premises, in any public or private cloud, or self-host. Our platform supports air-gapped, highly regulated, and legacy infrastructure, and is certified for SOC2, GDPR, and HIPAA. We also maintain an active open-source community.

Our vision is to make computing trustworthy by simplifying trusted computing. This helps engineering teams move faster and makes infrastructure more resilient against human error or compromise.

Our culture is guided by several behaviors:

• We write things down to preserve and share thoughts, which leads to smarter work and scalable growth.
• We act professionally, treating each other and customers with respect.
• We encourage starting simple and iterating, launching the simplest working implementation of an idea to improve faster or fail cheaply.
• We are drivers, taking control, responsibility, and influencing outcomes.
• We are builders, recognizing that building something new requires foundational, unglamorous work.
• We also lift each other up, assume positive intent in communications, and value each other’s time by making collaboration easy and respecting focus time.

Teleport has a global team, with employees located worldwide and its headquarters in Oakland, California. The company has between 201-500 employees. The work environment is transparent and collaborative, enabling engineers to do their work. It’s a fast-moving environment that values autonomy, security-mindedness, and business outcomes. The company empowers employees to accelerate their careers, providing freedom, power, and autonomy. The leadership team includes Ev Kontsevoy (Co-founder and CEO), Alexander Klizhentas (Co-founder and CTO), and Taylor Wakefield (Co-founder and COO).

We offer comprehensive health coverage, including medical, dental, vision, disability, and mental health care. This includes ²⁴⁄₇ emotional support, mental well-being through Headspace, and virtual gym classes.

We provide an annual expense benefit to cover costs like internet and phone allowances, home office equipment, gym memberships, and professional development.

We offer strong rest and recovery policies, with a minimum of four weeks of annual leave and 12 weeks of parental leave, plus career and sick leave.

We support your future with retirement savings plans, employer contributions, and financial well-being tools.

Every employee receives equity in the company, with opportunities based on job level. Teleport currently has a valuation of US$1.1 billion.

Professional development opportunities include virtual classes, certifications, and conference participation.