Software Engineer - Tooling - Remote

Overview

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.

In Short

• Support and enable internal business units through shared engineering services and functionalities.
• Build relationships with multiple stakeholders across the organization.
• Work directly with internal customer-facing teams.
• 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.
• Design, build, test, and document core software components.
• Participate in incident response and field customer support escalations.
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of system resources.

Requirements

• Experience with CI/CD, secrets management, infrastructure as code, and/or observability.
• Experience with developer tooling or developer experience.
• Experience with distributed systems.
• Experience with one or more SQL databases.
• Familiarity with networks (IP addressing, routing, etc.).
• Experience with Go programming language is a plus.
• Ability to give and process constructive feedback.
• Flexibility to adjust to the dynamic nature of a startup.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

• An inclusive, flexible environment.
• A competitive total compensation package.
• Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period.
• All-remote work opportunity.
• Connect with other Tailscalars IRL.
• Support for personal and professional development.
• Paid time off and a healthy work-life integration.
• A build-your-own home office setup.
• Generous parental leave program.