Infrastructure Engineer
About Tailscale
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.
Job Description
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.
Key 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.
What We Are Looking For
- Experience with CI/CD, secrets management, infrastructure as code, and observability
- Experience with distributed systems
- Experience with operating managed services in a cloud environment (preferably AWS)
- Experience with operating Kubernetes in production is a strong plus
- Familiarity with networks (IP addressing, routing, etc.)
- Most of the non-front-end portions of the system are developed in the Go programming language. Experience with Go is a plus.
What We Offer
- An inclusive, flexible environment where you can be your authentic self.
- A competitive total compensation package. This includes a base salary, an equity incentive plan and variable commission (for quota-based roles).
- Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period. Take advantage of coverage for health, vision, dental, and more for you and your family!
- A remote first company—most of our teams work fully remotely.
- Support for your personal and professional development. Grow your career thoughtfully with $1500 USD annually for professional development, or take advantage of mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities.
- Paid time off and a healthy work-life integration. Our flexible, paid time off program supports you for any situation life throws your way, whether moving homes or travelling the world!
- A build-your-own home office setup. You choose your own company-owned laptop (Mac or PC), receive a monthly home internet reimbursement, and $500 USD to customize your workstation to make it your own.
- Paid parental leave program. We care about your life outside of work and encourage new parents to take advantage of parental leave top-ups (20 weeks for birthing parents, 16 weeks for non-birthing parents).