
Software Engineer, Engineering Tooling
Tailscale
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Canada
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Salary
💰 CA$242,540 - CA$302,840 per year
Tech Stack
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
- 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—most of our teams work fully remotely.
- 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
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
CI/CDsecrets managementinfrastructure as codeobservabilitydeveloper toolingdistributed systemsSQL databasesGo programming language
Soft Skills
constructive feedbackindependenceflexibilitywritten communicationverbal communication