Software Engineer, Engineering Tooling

Tailscale is building the new Internet by delivering software that makes it easy to securely interconnect people and their devices. The role involves supporting internal business units through engineering services, building tools, and collaborating with teams to improve their productivity and efficiency.

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

Requirements:

• Experience with CI/CD, secrets management, infrastructure as code, and/or observability
• Experience with developer tooling or developer experience
• Experience with distributed systems
• Familiarity with networks (IP addressing, routing, etc.)
• Ability to give and process constructive feedback, as well as work independently
• Flexibility to adjust to the dynamic nature of a startup
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with Go programming language
• Familiarity with one or more SQL databases