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Salary: USD 181,000 - 226,000 / annual
Tailscale is a secure networking platform built on WireGuard that makes it easy to securely interconnect people and their devices. The company is fully distributed, founded in 2019, and backed by top-tier VCs including Accel, CRV, and Insight.
You will join the engineering team to develop the Tailscale product, contributing to both open-source client code and backend services with an emphasis on networking features and optimizations. You'll take ownership of the entire product lifecycle, from writing code to product ideation and strategic decision-making. You'll collaborate with UX/UI designers and product managers to shape features that enhance networking capabilities.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design, build, test, and document core networking software components as part of an engineering team
- Own the running services that comprise Tailscale's product by building for observability, participating in incident response, and fielding customer support escalations
- Analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability, and stability of networking systems and resources
- Bring a security-first mindset to both design and implementation, ensuring robust and secure networking components
The role requires strong motivation, the ability to think on your feet, collaboration with highly technical teams, and comfort working asynchronously in an early-stage, fully remote environment.
Requirements:
- Proven experience implementing application-layer networking concepts and distributed components, such as proxies, connectors, and overlay routing
- Deep knowledge of operating system-level networking internals, including socket programming, routing tables, and packet filtering primitives
- Professional experience with Go (Golang)
- Experience designing and maintaining distributed systems, with solid understanding of concurrency (multithreading, race conditions, memory management, synchronization primitives) and scalability
- Proficiency with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and writing efficient SQL queries
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly
- Strong collaborative mindset with ability to give and process constructive feedback
- Startup-ready flexibility and adaptability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
About Tailscale
AI / Data / Infrastructure; SaaS / Enterprise Software — secure networking platform built on WireGuard.
