# Infrastructure Engineer

**Company:** [Tailscale](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/tailscale)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $163k – $204k/yr
**Skills:** Go, Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD, Infrastructure As Code, Observability, Distributed Systems, Secrets Management, Continuous Deployment
**Posted:** 2026-04-20

> Infrastructure Engineer builds and maintains internal engineering services, improves observability, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure using tools like Kubernetes and AWS. Requires experience with distributed systems, infrastructure as code, and operating managed services in a remote environment.

## Job Description

## 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.

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