8 hours ago
Remote, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop Tailscale’s open-source client code and related backend services, emphasizing networking features and optimizations.
- Design, build, test, and document core networking software components.
- Own services throughout their lifecycle, including observability, incident response, and customer support escalations.
- Analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability, and stability of networking systems and resources.
- Collaborate with UX/UI designers and product managers to shape networking capabilities.
- Apply security-focused design and implementation practices to networking components.
Requirements
- Proven experience implementing application-layer networking concepts and distributed components such as proxies, connectors, and overlay routing.
- Deep knowledge of operating-system networking internals, including socket programming, routing tables, and packet filtering primitives.
- Professional experience with Go.
- Experience designing and maintaining distributed systems, including concurrency, multithreading, race conditions, memory management, synchronization primitives, and scalability.
- Proficiency with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL, including writing efficient SQL queries.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.
- Ability to collaborate effectively, work independently, give and process constructive feedback, and adapt in a fast-paced startup environment.
Benefits
- Fully remote, flexible work environment with a corporate co-working program and virtual and in-person social events.
- Base salary, equity incentive plan, and variable commission for quota-based roles.
- Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and other group benefits with no waiting period.
- Employer retirement contributions matching employee contributions dollar-for-dollar up to the stated annual maximum.
- Annual company retreat, team off-sites, and support for distributed team travel.
- $1500 USD annually for professional development, plus mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities.
- Flexible paid time off and paid parental leave top-ups of 20 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Company-owned laptop choice of Mac or PC, monthly home internet reimbursement, and a home-office setup allowance.
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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.