Software Engineer-Tooling

Summary

Join Tailscale's growing engineering team as a full-time Software Engineer. You will support internal business units by building and improving shared engineering services and tools. Collaborate with various stakeholders to understand and meet their needs, owning projects from start to finish. Work directly with internal customer-facing teams to enhance their workflows and extract data for business decisions. This role involves developing new developer tooling, improving CI/CD processes, and creating tools for development and staging environments. As a fully remote company, we seek a self-motivated individual who thrives in asynchronous collaboration and can adapt to a dynamic startup environment.

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.)
• 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

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
• 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
• Introduce new developer tooling to increase engineering productivity
• Improve existing tools, such as CI/CD
• Use information from production data to surface potential issues
• Create tooling for dev and staging environments

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Go

Benefits

• Base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits
• An inclusive, flexible environment where you can be your authentic self
• A competitive total compensation package. This includes a base salary, an equity incentive plan and variable commission (for quota-based roles)
• Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period. Take advantage of coverage for health, vision, dental, and more for you and your family!
• All-remote with the opportunity to work from anywhere —enjoy a change of scenery wherever you can get wifi, participate in virtual and in-person social events, and leverage our corporate co-working program to visit WeWork (or other similar spaces near you)
• Connect with other Tailscalars IRL. Attend our annual company retreat, participate in team/department off-sites, or use your individual travel budget to meet up with team members in Canada, the US, or the UK
• Support for your personal and professional development. Grow your career thoughtfully with $1500 USD annually for professional development, or take advantage of mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities
• Paid time off and a healthy work-life integration. Our flexible, paid time off program supports you for any situation life throws your way, whether moving homes or travelling the world! We encourage all Tailscalars to take 4-6 weeks of vacation annually
• A build-your-own home office setup. You choose your own company-owned laptop (Mac or PC), receive a monthly home internet reimbursement, and $1000 USD to customize your workstation to make it your own
• Generous parental leave program from your first day. We care about your life outside of work and encourage new parents to take advantage of parental leave top-ups for up to 26 weeks