Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

Tailscale is seeking a dedicated Software Engineer to join our team. You will focus on building and maintaining the internal systems that empower our business units, ensuring they have the tools and processes needed to thrive. This role involves collaborating closely with various teams to understand their requirements and deliver end-to-end solutions that simplify their daily work.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Enhance system visibility through metrics, alerts, logging, and telemetry.
• Develop and refine our continuous deployment pipelines.
• Implement infrastructure as code for managing cloud environments.
• Partner with other engineering groups on cross-functional infrastructure projects.
• Automate the update processes for managed services and virtual machines.
• Design, build, test, and document essential software components.
• Take ownership of running services, focusing on observability and incident response.
• Analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability, and stability of system resources.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of experience with CI/CD, secrets management, infrastructure as code, and observability tools.
• Experience working with distributed systems.
• Experience operating managed services within a cloud environment, preferably AWS.
• Familiarity with networking concepts like IP addressing and routing.
• Ability to provide and receive constructive feedback, and to work autonomously.
• Adaptability to the fast-paced nature of a startup.
• Strong written and verbal communication abilities.

Nice to have

• Experience operating Kubernetes in a production setting.
• Familiarity with the Go programming language.

Skills & tools

• Go
• AWS
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD
• Infrastructure as Code
• Observability tools
• Secrets Management

Practical notes

Salary range: $181,000 - $226,000 USD

Tailscale offers a competitive compensation package including base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits with no waiting period. Benefits include health, vision, dental, employer-funded retirement contributions (matching up to 0.75% of eligible compensation), professional development budget ($1500 USD annually), paid time off, home office setup allowance ($500 USD), and paid parental leave (20 weeks for birthing parents, 16 weeks for non-birthing parents).

The company is remote-first and supports distributed collaboration with opportunities for virtual and in-person events, including an annual company retreat and team off-sites.

AI-assisted tools are used in the hiring process, but all hiring decisions are made by people.

Legitimate communications from Tailscale will originate from @tailscale.com, @greenhouse.io, and @interviews.modernloop.io email addresses.