Remote Infrastructure Engineer: Cloud & Observability

Tailscale; United States; Remote; USD 181,000 - 226,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first company

Competitive compensation

Employer-backed retirement

Professional development

Home office stipend

Job summary

Tailscale is a fully remote company seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join the engineering team. You will support internal business units with shared services, build relationships with stakeholders, and deliver end-to-end projects that improve observability, deployments, and cloud infrastructure.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product engineering, asynchronous work, and the ability to move the product forward in a distributed environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with CI/CD, secrets management, infrastructure as code, and observability.
• Experience with distributed systems and production Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with operating in a cloud environment (preferably AWS).
• Go programming language experience is a plus.
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to work asynchronously.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and document core software components as part of a team.
• Own running services by building observability, incident response, and customer support handling.
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of system resources.

Skills

CI/CD

Observability

Distributed systems

AWS

Kubernetes

Go

Communication

Startup experience

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Tailscale is a fully remote company seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join the engineering team. You will support internal business units with shared services, build relationships with stakeholders, and deliver end-to-end projects that improve observability, deployments, and cloud infrastructure.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product engineering, asynchronous work, and the ability to move the product forward in a distributed environment.