Infrastructure Engineer

Tailscale

Infrastructure Engineer at Tailscale developing engineering services and enabling internal business units. Collaborating across teams to enhance observability and infrastructure improvements.

Posted 4/20/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $163,000 - $204,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoKubernetes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.
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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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
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

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

CI/CDinfrastructure as codeobservabilitydistributed systemsmanaged servicescloud environmentAWSKubernetesGo programming languageautomation

Soft Skills

constructive feedbackindependenceflexibilitycommunication