Infrastructure Engineer

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.

Example Deliverables

• 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.

What We Are Looking For

• 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.