Infrastructure Engineer

• Support and enable internal business units through shared engineering services and functionalities, building the tools and processes those teams need to succeed. • Build relationships with stakeholders across the organisation to understand and meet their needs through projects you own end to end. • Work directly with internal customer-facing teams to make their day-to-day lives easier, and with product engineering to extract the data that drives business decisions. • Take on work spanning observability, continuous deployment, infrastructure as code, cross-functional infrastructure improvements, and automated upgrades for managed services and VMs. • Work remotely from anywhere in the United Kingdom at an early-stage, fully distributed company.

• Have experience with CI/CD, secrets management, infrastructure as code, and observability. • Have experience with distributed systems. • Have operated managed services in a cloud environment. • Be familiar with networks, including IP addressing and routing. • Give and process constructive feedback, and work independently. • Stay flexible enough to adjust to the dynamic nature of a startup. • Communicate excellently in writing and in person, working comfortably in an async, fully remote team.

• Have operated Kubernetes in production. • Have worked specifically with AWS. • Have experience with Go, which most non-frontend parts of the system are written in. • Have participated in incident response and handled customer support escalations.

• Work as part of a team of engineers to design, build, test, and document core software components. • Exhibit ownership over the running services that make up Tailscale's product by building for observability, taking part in incident response, and fielding customer support escalations. • Analyse and improve the efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources. • Improve observability through metrics, alerting, logging, and telemetry integration. • Identify and build improvements for continuous deployment. • Use infrastructure as code to make changes in a cloud environment. • Collaborate with other engineering teams on cross-functional infrastructure improvements. • Automate upgrades for managed services and VMs.

• Receive a competitive total compensation package including base salary and an equity incentive plan. • Access comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period, covering health, vision, dental, and more for you and your family. • Work remote-first with support for virtual and in-person social events and a corporate co-working programme at WeWork or similar spaces. • Get employer-funded retirement contributions matched dollar-for-dollar, up to 0.75% of your eligible compensation annually. • Attend the annual company retreat and team off-sites, connecting with teammates across Canada, the US, the UK, and Singapore. • Spend $1,500 USD annually on professional development, alongside mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities. • Take flexible paid time off that supports whatever life throws your way. • Build your own home office with a company-owned laptop of your choice, monthly home internet reimbursement, and $500 USD to customise your workstation. • Take paid parental leave top-ups of 20 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents.

Tailscale is building the new Internet by delivering software that makes it easy to securely interconnect people and their devices wherever they are. Teams of every size, from hobbyists to multinational corporations, use Tailscale to protect their networks and share access to internal tools. The company was founded in 2019, is fully distributed, and is backed by Accel, CRV, Insight, Heavybit, and Uncork Capital.