infrastructure
Posted 1 weeks agoSecurity Infrastructure Engineer
at Tailscale
CanadaRemote
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Responsibilities
- Design and build security controls across diverse layers (e.g., cloud platforms, OS, Kubernetes, networks, CI/CD) to defend against sophisticated adversaries and insider threats.
- Audit Tailscale infrastructure for technical security weaknesses, identifying mitigations or solutions, and driving them towards resolution.
- Support engineering decisions with threat modeling and security analysis and expertise.
- Grow your career thoughtfully with $1500 USD annually for professional development, or take advantage of mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities.
Requirements
- Expertise in the security of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS), especially securing multi-cloud networks and infrastructure, and designing cloud agnostic systems
- Familiarity with container security, orchestration security, and authentication/authorization
- Familiarity with internet/web security fundamentals: WAF’s, TLS, PKI, DNS security, etc.
- Proficiency developing in at least one programming language (Tailscale uses Go) and Infrastructure as Code tooling (e.g. Terraform, Ansible) Prior
- experience in a safety-related technical role, e.g.: infrastructure security security operations threat modeling and prioritization
- Knowledge of operating system internals and security mechanisms
- Knowledge of common networking protocols
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Our hiring process uses AI-assisted tools to help screen and assess candidates. All hiring decisions are made by people.
Benefits
- As a company, we strive to maintain fair and equitable compensation practices within our team across all roles and all levels.
- Tailscale's compensation package includes base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits.
- The salary range displayed on each job posting represents the target range for a new hire's base salary.
- CAN Pay Range $218,420 — $302,840 CAD
- A competitive total compensation package. This includes a base salary, an equity incentive plan and variable commission (for quota-based roles). Comprehensive group
- benefits with no waiting period. Take advantage of coverage for health, vision, dental, and more for you and your family!
- Employer-funded retirement contributions.
- Tailscale will match your retirement contributions dollar-for-dollar, up to a maximum annual employer contribution equal to 0.75% of your eligible compensation.
- Paid time off and a healthy work-life integration. Our flexible, paid time off program supports you for any situation life throws your way, whether moving homes or travelling the world!
- You choose your own company-owned laptop (Mac or PC), receive a monthly home internet reimbursement, and $500 USD to customize your workstation to make it your own.
- Paid parental leave program .
- We care about your life outside of work and encourage new parents to take advantage of parental leave top-ups (20 weeks for birthing parents, 16 weeks for non-birthing parents).
Contact
- Please be aware that legitimate emails from Tailscale's talent team will only originate from @tailscale.com, @greenhouse.io, and @interviews.modernloop.io email addresses.
- For more information about protecting yourself from impersonators and scams, please visit https://tailscale.com/scam-awareness .
Additional details
- Tailscale is building the new Internet by delivering software that makes it easy to securely interconnect people and their devices, no matter where they are.
- From hobbyists to multinational corporations, teams of every size use Tailscale each day to protect their networks, share access to internal tools, and more.
- We're building a future for the Internet that's easy, sensible, and safe, like it used to be.
- Founded in 2019 and fully distributed, we're backed by Accel, CRV, Insight, Heavybit, and Uncork Capital. Job Description
- We’re looking for people who can move Tailscale forward while making it safer to use.
- The abilities to think on your feet, collaborate with highly technical teams, and be comfortable working asynchronously are essential. Key Responsibilities
- You will spend 25-50% of your time in this role writing software vs purely operational or governance security responsibilities.
- Act as a Subject Matter Expert during security incidents, focusing on infrastructure-level containment and remediation Team Fit
- Flexibility to adjust to the dynamic nature of a startup
- Take a risk-based approach to building security controls, balancing your security expertise and broad technical skillsets with practical, usable solutions