Infrastructure Engineer

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.

Example deliverables in this role might include:

Improve observability through metrics, alerting, logging and telemetry integration

Identify and build improvements for Continuous Deployment

Utilize infrastructure as code to make changes in a cloud environment

Collaborate with other engineering teams to build cross functional infrastructure improvements

Automate upgrades for managed services and VMs.

Because we’re an early-stage and fully-remote company, we’re looking for a strongly motivated individual who can help move the product forward. The ability to think on your feet, collaborate with highly technical teams, and comfortably work asynchronously are essential.

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.

Ability to give and process constructive feedback, as well as work independently

Flexibility to adjust to the dynamic nature of a startup

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

As a company, we strive to maintain fair and equitable compensation practices within our team across all roles and all levels. Tailscale's compensation package includes base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits. The salary range displayed on each job posting represents the target range for a new hire's base salary. Individual offers may vary based on experience and skill set.

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