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.

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.

Software Engineer, Engineering Tooling

Key skills