Remote (Canada) Remote (Country) Full-time USD 218,420 – 273,360 / year

Tailscale is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer

About the Role

The role involves building and maintaining core systems that power a modern zero trust networking platform, focusing on scalability, reliability, and operational excellence in distributed environments.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement highly available infrastructure systems
  • Maintain and improve deployment pipelines
  • Monitor system performance and respond to incidents
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure service reliability
  • Optimize infrastructure for cost and efficiency
  • Troubleshoot complex production issues
  • Ensure systems meet security and compliance standards
  • Develop automation for operational tasks
  • Support on-call rotations for critical systems
  • Evaluate and integrate new technologies
  • Contribute to capacity planning efforts
  • Maintain documentation for infrastructure components
  • Work on network reliability and connectivity features
  • Improve observability across services
  • Participate in system design reviews
  • Implement disaster recovery procedures
  • Scale systems to meet growing user demand
  • Ensure consistent configuration across environments
  • Manage infrastructure as code
  • Support secure access and authentication systems
  • Enhance system resilience under failure conditions
  • Coordinate with security teams on infrastructure hardening
  • Reduce technical debt in foundational systems
  • Drive improvements in deployment velocity
  • Assist in post-incident reviews and follow-ups

Nice to Have

  • Experience with edge networking technologies
  • Contributions to open source infrastructure projects
  • Background in security engineering
  • Familiarity with WireGuard protocol
  • Experience with large-scale tunneling systems
  • Knowledge of eBPF and kernel-level networking
  • Prior work with zero trust architectures
  • Experience in remote-first companies
  • Public speaking or conference presentations
  • Writing technical documentation or blogs

Compensation

Competitive salary with equity package and performance bonuses

Work Arrangement

Remote with flexible hours

Team

Small, focused engineering team working on core infrastructure

Why This Role Matters

The systems built in this role directly impact the reliability and security of a global networking platform used by thousands of organizations. Engineers in this position enable seamless, secure connectivity without compromising performance.

Our Tech Stack

We use Go for most backend services, run on Google Cloud Platform, leverage Kubernetes for orchestration, and rely heavily on GitHub Actions for CI/CD. Networking components are built around WireGuard and custom userspace implementations.

Available for qualified candidates

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Tailscale
Tailscale is building the new Internet by delivering software that makes it easy to securely interconnect people and their devices, no matter where they are. From hobbyists to multinational corporations, teams of every size use Tailscale each day to protect their networks, share access to internal tools, and more.
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Job Details
Category infrastructure
Posted a month ago