Software Engineer, Engineering Tooling

We re seeking a skilled and diligent full-time software engineer to join our growing team. You will work as part of the engineering team to:

• 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.

Example deliverables in this role might include:

• 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

Because we re an early-stage and fully remote company, we re looking for a strongly motivated individual who can help move the product forward. The ability to think on your feet, collaborate with highly technical teams, and be comfortable working asynchronously are essential.

Key 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.

What We Are Looking For

• 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