About the role

Infrastructure Engineer supporting Tailscale's secure interconnection tools and collaborating with internal teams to fulfill their growing infrastructure needs.

Responsibilities

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.
Improve observability through metrics, alerting, logging and telemetry integration
Identify and build improvements for Continuous Deployment
Utilize infrastructure as code to make changes in a cloud environment
Collaborate with other engineering teams to build cross functional infrastructure improvements
Automate upgrades for managed services and VMs.

Experience with CI/CD, secrets management, infrastructure as code, and observability
Experience with distributed systems
Experience with operating managed services in a cloud environment (preferably AWS)
Experience with operating Kubernetes in production is a strong plus
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.