Tailscale

Engineering Manager, Networking Features

Tailscale

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $206,000 - $257,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

DNSGo

About the role

  • Provide guidance, mentorship, and career development for a team of software engineers.
  • Provide guidance on architecture and scoping to execute on projects successfully.
  • Provide technical direction in projects and grow technical leadership capabilities of reports.
  • Hire, interview and recruit; guide engineering culture and develop processes as organization grows.
  • Lead Pods (2-3 pods of 2-4 engineers plus PM and Designer) and manage cross-codebase feature implementation and customer requests.
  • Achieve significant business outcomes through cross-functional collaboration with product managers, data scientists, and designers.
  • Help team improve performance and quality of work; make major design decisions.
  • Hire, nurture, and oversee a team while fostering psychological well-being, diversity and inclusion.
  • Lead team responsible for managing a critical production service including operational concerns (monitoring, alerting, on call).
  • Manage healthy conflict, moderate design discussions, and cultivate positive culture of feedback.
  • Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to complete complex projects spanning multiple technical domains.
  • Drive planning across multiple time horizons from tactical to strategic.

Requirements

  • Background in networking (including L4-L7 connectivity, browser and DNS behaviors, BGP and related protocols).
  • Experience as a people manager (must have prior management experience).
  • Demonstrated leadership with substantial experience in managing and mentoring engineering teams, including performance evaluations and career development.
  • Experience developing in Go.
  • Ability to give and process constructive feedback and work independently.
  • Flexibility to adjust to the dynamic nature of a startup.