Backend Engineer, Control Plane
Core
Design, build, test, and document core software components for Tailscale's control plane, relay infrastructure, and identity integrations.
Role type
Senior IC backend engineer (distributed systems)
Builds
Control plane services, relay infrastructure, identity integrations
Domain
Cybersecurity / Networking / Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Go, distributed systems, SQL databases, networking (IP addressing, routing), observability, incident response, security-first design
Preferred skills
Open source contribution, asynchronous collaboration, startup agility
Technologies
Go, SQL, control plane, relay infrastructure
Responsibilities
Design and build core software components; develop product features for control plane and identity integrations; participate in incident response and field customer escalations; analyze and improve system efficiency and scalability
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC