Infrastructure Engineer

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About Tailscale

Tailscale is making safe connection effortless 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.

About the Role

We’re seeking a skilled and diligent full-time Software Engineer to join our growing team. You will work as part of the engineering team to:

Support and enable internal business units through shared engineering services and functionalities, building the tools and processes for those teams to succeed.

Build relationships with multiple stakeholders across the organization to understand and meet their needs with projects you'll own end to end.

Work directly with internal customer facing teams to empower their mission and take pride in making their day-to-day lives easier. Work with product engineering to extract the data needed to drive business decisions.

Example deliverables in this role might include:

Improve observability through metrics, alerting, logging and telemetry integration

Identify and build improvements for Continuous Deployment

Utilize infrastructure as code to make changes in a cloud environment

Collaborate with other engineering teams to build cross functional infrastructure improvements

Automate upgrades for managed services and VMs.

Because we’re an early-stage and fully-remote company, we’re looking for a strongly motivated individual who can help move the product forward. The ability to think on your feet, collaborate with highly technical teams, and comfortably work asynchronously are essential.

Key Responsibilities

Work as part of a team of engineers to design, build, test, and document core software components.

Exhibit ownership over the running services that comprise Tailscale’s product by building for observability, participating in incident response, and fielding customer support escalations.

Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources.

What We Are Looking For

Experience with CI/CD, secrets management, infrastructure as code, and observability

Experience with distributed systems

Experience with operating managed services in a cloud environment (preferably AWS)

Experience with operating Kubernetes in production is a strong plus