Tailscale

Software Engineer, Engineering Tooling

Tailscale

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $181,000 - $226,000 per year

About the role

  • 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.
  • Introducing new developer tooling to increase engineering productivity
  • Improving existing tools, such as CI/CD
  • Using information from production data to surface potential issues
  • Creating tooling for dev and staging environments
  • 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
  • Experience with one or more SQL databases
  • Familiarity with networks (IP addressing, routing, etc.)
  • Most of the non-front-end portions of the system are developed in the Go programming language. Experience with Go is a plus.
  • 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.
Benefits
  • An inclusive, flexible environment where you can be your authentic self.
  • A competitive total compensation package.
  • Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period.
  • Remote first company.
  • Connect with other Tailscalars IRL.
  • Support for your personal and professional development.
  • Paid time off and a healthy work-life integration.
  • A build-your-own home office setup.
  • Generous parental leave program from your first day.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
CI/CDsecrets managementinfrastructure as codeobservabilitydeveloper toolingdistributed systemsSQL databasesGo programming language
Soft Skills
constructive feedbackindependenceflexibilitywritten communicationverbal communication