Software Engineer contributing to Tailscale's product development with a focus on identity and access management. Collaborating with teams to design, build, and maintain backend services.
Responsibilities
Develop the Tailscale product, contributing to both open source client code and related backend services.
Take ownership of the entire product lifecycle, from writing code to product ideation and strategic decision-making.
Work closely with UX/UI designers and product managers to shape features.
Bring a special focus to building features related to identity and access management.
Work as part of a team of engineers to design, build, test, and document core software components.
Develop product features in areas that include our control plane, platform, and identity services.
Develop features that support a broad range of sign-on functionality, such as SSO, OAuth2, SAML, and WebAuthn.
Develop and maintain SCIM style capabilities to synchronize users, groups and other attributes from IdPs.
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.
Bring a security-first mindset to both design and implementation.
Participate in our on-call rotation every x weeks, to triage and mitigate incidents.
Requirements
Familiarity with authentication/authorization protocols, standards and frameworks such as OAuth2, OIDC, SSO, and SAML.
Experience with distributed systems and building observable, secure, scalable, and resilient services.
Most of the non-front-end portions of the system are developed in the Go programming language.
Experience with one or more SQL databases.
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.
Familiarity with networks (IP addressing, routing, etc.) is a plus.
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—most of our teams work fully remotely.
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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