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Salary: CAD 218,420 - 302,840 / annual
Tailscale is a secure networking platform built on WireGuard that makes it easy to securely interconnect people and their devices. Founded in 2019 and fully distributed, the company is backed by top-tier VCs including Accel, CRV, and Insight.
You will join the engineering team to design, build, and maintain Tailscale's global Funnel and DERP relay infrastructure. This role combines extensive network engineering knowledge with software development and SRE/DevOps expertise to ensure the scalability, high availability, and performance of hosted services at global scale.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design, build, evaluate, and document networking features, connectivity solutions, and the open-source client-code network dataplane
- Enhance and iterate on Funnel and DERP relay infrastructures and their associated network protocols
- Investigate and resolve complex, escalated network issues across diverse technical environments
- Maintain accountability for Tailscale's live services through observability integration, incident management, and technical support escalation handling
- Evaluate and improve the performance, reliability, and scaling capabilities of networking resources and systems
- Apply security-first principles throughout the development lifecycle of networking components
- Provide architectural guidance and troubleshoot escalated networking problems for customers
- Partner with internal engineering and product teams to advance hosted services and clients
- Contribute to open-source client code and develop the Tailscale product dataplane
The company emphasizes operational excellence, automation, asynchronous collaboration, and the ability to think on your feet within a fast-paced startup environment.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Proven track record in networking software development and troubleshooting
- Expertise in core networking principles such as VPNs, NAT traversal, routing, and IP addressing
- Experience with distributed systems, maintaining global-scale services, and applying SRE & DevOps methodologies
- Experience with Go programming language is highly desired (most systems are developed in Go)
- Strong interpersonal skills for exchanging constructive feedback and autonomy to work independently
- Adaptability to thrive within a fast-paced startup environment
- Superior communication abilities, both written and verbal
About Tailscale
AI / Data / Infrastructure; SaaS / Enterprise Software — secure networking platform built on WireGuard.
