Software Engineer-Infrastructure & Tooling

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: (Salary information is incomplete - Please refer to the original document for the full compensation details)

Tailscale is building the new Internet by delivering software that makes it easy to securely interconnect people and their devices, no matter where they are. From hobbyists to multinational corporations, teams of every size use Tailscale each day to protect their networks, share access to internal tools, and more. We're building a future for the Internet that's easy, sensible, and safe, like it used to be. Founded in 2019 and fully distributed, we're backed by Accel, CRV, Insight, Heavybit, and Uncork Capital.

We’re seeking a skilled and diligent full-time Software Engineer to join our growing team. You will work as part of the engineering team to:

• Support and enable internal business units through shared engineering services and functionalities, building the tools and processes for those teams to succeed.
• Build relationships with multiple stakeholders across the organization to understand and meet their needs with projects you'll own end to end.
• Work directly with internal customer facing teams to empower their mission and take pride in making their day-to-day lives easier. Work with product engineering to extract the data needed to drive business decisions.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a team of engineers to design, build, test, and document core software components.
• Exhibit ownership over the running services that comprise Tailscale’s product by building for observability, participating in incident response, and fielding customer support escalations.
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources.
• Introduce new developer tooling to increase engineering productivity.
• Improve existing tools, such as CI/CD.
• Use information from production data to surface potential issues.
• Create tooling for dev and staging environments.

What We Are Looking For

Experience:

• CI/CD
• Secrets management
• Infrastructure as code
• Observability
• Developer tooling or developer experience
• Distributed systems
• One or more SQL databases
• Familiarity with networks (IP addressing, routing, etc.)

Skills:

• Ability to give and process constructive feedback.
• Ability to work independently.
• Flexibility to adjust to the dynamic nature of a startup.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Technical Skills (Bonus):

• Experience with Go programming language.

Application Instructions

(Application instructions are incomplete - Please refer to the original document for specific instructions)

Company Information

Tailscale is a fully distributed company. We strive to maintain fair and equitable compensation practices within our team across all roles and all levels.