Software Engineer, Networking (Go) — Remote

Doist; United States; Remote; USD 163,000 - 226,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Equity opportunities

Health, vision, dental

Retirement contributions

Professional development $1500/year

Job summary

Tailscale is seeking a full-time Software Engineer to join the Dataplane Engineering Team. Work on core client connectivity features, enhancing interactions between clients, subnet routers, exit nodes, and customer networks.

You will collaborate with product management to deliver scalable, maintainable networking solutions in a fully remote, distributed setting. Ideal candidates have strong networking software experience, knowledge of routing, VPNs, and NAT traversal, and are proficient in Go or

Qualifications

• Significant experience with networking software and diagnosing networking issues.
• Strong grasp of routing, VPNs, IP management, and NAT traversal.
• Proficiency in Go or other low-level languages (C/C++, Rust) with concurrency focus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and document core client networking software.
• Advance features by integrating industry network protocols with custom designs.
• Prioritize security in architecture and coding for resilient modules.
• Evaluate performance and scale across diverse platforms and hardware.
• Provide expert consultations for network escalations in customer environments.
• Engage with the open-source community and related projects.

Skills

Networking experience

Networking engineering

Go/C/C++/Rust

Distributed systems

Low-level OS networking

Independent / self-motivated

Job description

Tailscale is seeking a full-time Software Engineer to join the Dataplane Engineering Team. Work on core client connectivity features, enhancing interactions between clients, subnet routers, exit nodes, and customer networks.

You will collaborate with product management to deliver scalable, maintainable networking solutions in a fully remote, distributed setting. Ideal candidates have strong networking software experience, knowledge of routing, VPNs, and NAT traversal, and are proficient in Go or