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Software Engineer, Engineering Tooling
Location
United States
Posted
119 days ago
Salary
$181K - $226K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Software Engineer, Engineering Tooling
Tailscale
• Support and enable internal business units through shared engineering services and functionalities, building the tools and processes for those teams to succeed. • Build relationships with multiple stakeholders across the organization to understand and meet their needs with projects you'll own end to end. • Work directly with internal customer-facing teams to empower their mission and take pride in making their day-to-day lives easier. Work with product engineering to extract the data needed to drive business decisions. • Introducing new developer tooling to increase engineering productivity • Improving existing tools, such as CI/CD • Using information from production data to surface potential issues • Creating tooling for dev and staging environments • 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.
Job Requirements
- Experience with CI/CD, secrets management, infrastructure as code, and/or observability
- Experience with developer tooling or developer experience
- Experience with distributed systems
- Experience with one or more SQL databases
- 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.
Benefits
- An inclusive, flexible environment where you can be your authentic self.
- A competitive total compensation package.
- Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period.
- Remote first company.
- Connect with other Tailscalars IRL.
- Support for your personal and professional development.
- Paid time off and a healthy work-life integration.
- A build-your-own home office setup.
- Generous parental leave program from your first day.
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