Tailscale
Infrastructure Engineer
$181K–$226K
Remote (United States) +3 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Oct 10, 2026
- Location
- Remote (United States)
Canada
United Kingdom
United States
About the job
Build and operate internal and product infrastructure that supports Tailscale’s teams and improves the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of its services.
What you'll do
- Design, build, test, and document core software components and infrastructure improvements.
- Improve observability, deployment, and cloud infrastructure; automate upgrades for managed services and VMs.
- Own running services through incident response, customer support escalations, and ongoing efficiency and stability improvements.
What they ask for
- Experience with CI/CD, secrets management, infrastructure as code, and observability.
- Experience with distributed systems and operating managed services in a cloud environment.
- Familiarity with networks, including IP addressing and routing.
- Ability to work independently and communicate effectively.
Nice to have
- Experience operating Kubernetes in production.
- Experience with Go.
Pay
$181,000 — $226,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
CI/CD, infrastructure as code, AWS, Kubernetes, Go
AI focus
The company uses AI-assisted tools to help screen and assess candidates; hiring decisions are made by people. The role itself does not state AI work.
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