Infrastructure Engineer

Tailscale is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer to build and operate infrastructure that supports its product and internal teams. The role focuses on improving observability, deployment workflows, cloud infrastructure, and the efficiency, scalability, and stability of running services.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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

Requirements:

• Experience with CI/CD, secrets management, infrastructure as code, and observability
• Experience with distributed systems
• Experience with operating managed services in a cloud environment
• 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
• preferably AWS
• Experience with operating Kubernetes in production
• Experience with Go