This role is only open to applicants based in the United States. Tailscale has posted the same role separately for Canada.
Tailscale built its name by making private networks feel like magic: install it, sign in, and your devices can talk to each other securely. Behind that simplicity sits a lot of infrastructure, and Tailscale wants an engineer to make life easier for the teams who run the business on it.
About Tailscale
Tailscale makes software that securely connects people and devices wherever they are, used by everyone from hobbyists to multinational companies. Founded in 2019 and fully distributed, it is backed by Accel, CRV, Insight, Heavybit and Uncork Capital. Most of its backend is written in Go.
About the Role
You will join the engineering team to build shared engineering services, tools and processes for internal business units, owning projects end to end.
You will:
- Improve observability through metrics, alerting, logging and telemetry
- Find and build improvements for continuous deployment
- Use infrastructure as code to make changes in the cloud
- Automate upgrades for managed services and virtual machines
- Take part in incident response and customer support escalations
- Help make systems more efficient, scalable and stable
About You
- Experience with CI/CD, secrets management, infrastructure as code and observability
- Experience with distributed systems and with managed cloud services, preferably AWS
- Familiarity with networking basics such as IP addressing and routing
- Excellent written and verbal communication and comfort working asynchronously
Nice to Have
- Running Kubernetes in production
- Experience with Go
What Tailscale Offers
The posted US base salary range is $181,000 to $226,000, plus equity.
- Health, dental and vision cover for you and your family, with no waiting period
- Flexible paid time off and parental leave top-ups of up to 20 weeks
- $1,500 a year for professional development
- A company laptop, monthly internet reimbursement and $500 for your workstation
- Retirement matching, co-working access and an annual company retreat
If you love making other engineers' lives easier, apply on the official Tailscale careers page: Apply for the Tailscale Infrastructure Engineer role