Backend Engineer, Control Plane

Tailscale(7 days ago)

RemoteFull TimeMedior$163,000 - $226,000Engineering

About this role

A full-time Software Engineer on Tailscale's Control Plane Team working at a fully distributed company. The role focuses on contributing to the Tailscale product across open-source client code and backend services while participating in product lifecycle and strategic decisions. The position emphasizes ownership, collaboration with designers and product managers, and remote-first work.

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Required Skills

Go
Distributed Systems
SQL
Networking
Observability
Incident Response
Scalability
Security
Communication
Product Collaboration

About Tailscale

tailscale.com

Tailscale is a secure networking service that builds a WireGuard®-based mesh VPN to connect devices, servers, and cloud resources with point-to-point encrypted tunnels. It implements least-privilege, zero-trust access via ACLs and integrates with identity providers (SSO) for authentication and policy enforcement. Tailscale handles NAT traversal, device discovery, and provides an admin console, audit logs, and enterprise features for scale. Teams choose it for fast deployment, cross-platform support, and simplified secure remote access.