5 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$163k - $204k/yr
Responsibilities
- Support internal business units through shared engineering services, tools, and processes.
- Own projects end to end by working with stakeholders across the organization.
- Work with internal customer-facing teams and product engineering to support their missions and business decisions.
- Improve observability through metrics, alerting, logging, and telemetry integration.
- Identify and build continuous deployment improvements.
- Use infrastructure as code to modify cloud environments.
- Collaborate with engineering teams on cross-functional infrastructure improvements.
- Automate upgrades for managed services and virtual machines.
- Design, build, test, and document core software components.
- Build observability into running services, participate in incident response, and handle customer support escalations.
- Analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability, and stability of system resources.
Requirements
- Experience with CI/CD, secrets management, infrastructure as code, and observability.
- Experience with distributed systems.
- Experience operating managed services in a cloud environment, preferably AWS.
- Experience operating Kubernetes in production is a strong plus.
- Familiarity with networks, including IP addressing and routing.
- Experience with Go is a plus.
- Ability to work independently, collaborate with technical teams, and give and process constructive feedback.
- Flexibility to work in a dynamic startup environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits
- Remote-first, fully distributed work environment with flexible work arrangements.
- Health, vision, dental, and other group benefits with no waiting period.
- Base salary, equity incentive plan, and variable commission for quota-based roles.
- Annual company retreat, team off-sites, and support for distributed collaboration.
- $1500 USD annually for professional development, plus mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Company-owned Mac or PC laptop, monthly home internet reimbursement, and $1000 USD for home-office customization.
- Parental leave top-ups for up to 26 weeks from the first day.
- Corporate co-working program, including WeWork or similar spaces.
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About Tailscale
Tailscale builds a software-defined mesh VPN that lets individuals and organizations securely connect devices and services using WireGuard and single sign-on. It sells a subscription SaaS with free and paid plans, offering features like access control lists, device authentication, and admin tooling for teams and enterprises. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Toronto, the company is privately held and used from hobby projects to corporate networks.