Tailscale
Customer Reliability Engineer
Remote (Canada) +2 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Jul 14, 2026
- Location
- Remote (Canada)
Canada
United States - Experience
- 4+ years in technical support or an escalation role at a SaaS or infrastructure company.
About the job
Own complex, high-severity customer escalations, investigate and reproduce technical issues, and provide resolutions or actionable engineering handoffs.
What you'll do
- Investigate and resolve or hand off high-severity post-sales escalations, including reproducing difficult bugs.
- Work with customers to gather logs, explain investigation theories, and build evidence-backed engineering handoffs.
- Identify recurring issues and translate findings into product improvements, tooling, and runbooks.
What they ask for
- 4+ years in technical support or an escalation role at a SaaS or infrastructure company, with ownership of escalated or enterprise-tier accounts.
- Production or homelab networking experience, including TCP/IP, routing, DNS, firewalls, NAT, VPNs, and load balancers.
- Code-level debugging capability, including reading Go source and pprof profiles; proficiency with Go, Python, and JSON.
- Experience with packet-level analysis.
Nice to have
- Deep familiarity with overlay networking concepts such as WireGuard, UDP hole punching, and STUN, and comparable VPN/networking products.
- Experience with cloud IaaS, CI/CD pipelines, containerized applications, Kubernetes debugging, and troubleshooting Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Pay
$154,100 — $192,960 CAD (base salary)
Tools
TCP/IP, WireGuard, UDP, STUN, Go, Python, JSON, Kubernetes
AI focus
The company uses AI-assisted tools to screen and assess candidates; all hiring decisions are made by people. The role itself does not specify AI work.
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