Senior Customer Support Engineer, Customer Escalations

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About the role

  • Senior Customer Support Engineer addressing high-severity technical escalations at Tailscale. Collaborating with engineering teams to resolve complex customer issues.

Responsibilities

  • Own high-severity, post-sales technical escalations from intake through resolution or engineering handoff.
  • Get on calls with customers, pull logs, and communicate with the customer about leading theories.
  • Build engineering handoff packages that require minimal follow-up questions: reproducible case, log evidence (timestamps, node IDs), version matrix, impact scope, what's already been ruled out, and a proposed engineering team to own the fix.
  • File and track issues for confirmed bugs, keeping the ticket/issue link intact so engineering retains full customer context.
  • Monitor for patterns across escalations to catch recurring or systemic issues early; translate what you learn into product improvements, tooling, and runbooks that raise the technical bar for the whole Support org.
  • Partner with Support, CSE, and Product/Eng, while staying within this team's scope.

Requirements

  • 4+ years in a technical support or escalation role at a SaaS or infrastructure company, with demonstrated ownership of escalated/enterprise-tier accounts.
  • A genuine problem-solver who gets energy from untangling hard, ambiguous technical issues.
  • Comfortable owning a live, high-stakes customer call: staying calm, building trust, and communicating clearly with a frustrated or technical customer under pressure.
  • Hands-on networking experience in production or homelab environments: TCP/IP, routing, DNS, firewalls, NAT, VPNs, load balancers.
  • Deep familiarity with overlay networking concepts — WireGuard, UDP hole punching, STUN — and comparable VPN/networking products.
  • Code-level debugging capability: can read Go source, reason about goroutines/locks/channels, read pprof CPU/heap profiles, and understand network interface semantics.
  • Comfortable with infrastructure concepts: cloud IaaS, CI/CD pipelines, containerized applications, and Kubernetes debugging.
  • Strong systems administration skills as well as troubleshooting across Linux, macOS, and Windows.
  • Track record of independently building reproducible test cases and clear, evidence-backed bug reports engineering can act on directly.
  • Strong technical storytelling: able to distill highly technical, ambiguous issues into clear narratives for both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Investigative mindset; curious to analyze root cause, and evaluate all options to get customers to the best solution.
  • Proficiency with programming/scripting in Go, Python, JSON.
  • Experience with packet-level analysis.

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.
  • Employer-funded retirement contributions.
  • 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.
  • Paid parental leave program.

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$154,100 - CA$192,960 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

CloudDNSFirewallsKubernetesLinuxMacOSNode.jsPythonTCP/IPGo

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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