Engineering Manager, Control Plane

🕒 July 29

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Tailscale

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2020

☁️ SaaS

🔐 Security

📡 Telecommunications

💰 $100M Series B on 2022-05

SaaS • Security • Telecommunications

Tailscale is a company that provides a modern VPN solution founded on WireGuard technology, simplifying networking by creating secure, software-defined networks that connect users, services, and devices with ease. By eliminating the complexities of legacy VPNs, Tailscale offers secure remote access, site-to-site networking, and multi-cloud networking, all while ensuring user-friendly, quick deployment without complex configurations. Recognized for enabling zero-trust environments and seamless workflows, Tailscale supports robust security features such as automated user onboarding, encryption, and access control lists (ACLs). This tool is particularly popular for both enterprise and personal use, praised for its integration capabilities and ease of use, making secure networking accessible anywhere, regardless of infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Provide guidance, mentorship, and career development for a team of software engineers. • Contribute toward the success of our Product organization which includes Engineering, Product Management, and Design. We operate in Pods of 2-4 engineers plus a Product Manager and Designer, and each Engineering Manager handles 2-3 such Pods. • Provide technical direction in projects as needed, as well as growing the technical leadership capabilities of the engineers reporting to you. • Help in growing the organization: interviewing and recruiting, guiding the development of the engineering culture, developing processes as we grow. • Achieve significant business outcomes through cross-functional collaboration with product managers, data scientists, and designers. • Help your team to improve their performance, the quality of their work; make major design decisions. • Hire, nurture, and oversee a team of engineers while fostering an atmosphere of psychological well-being, embracing diversity and promoting inclusion. • Lead a team responsible for managing a critical production service, including operational concerns (monitoring, alerting, on call, etc). • Manage healthy conflict by moderating design discussions and cultivating a positive culture of feedback with candor and kindness. • Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams across the organization to complete complex projects spanning multiple technical domains. • Drive planning across multiple time horizons, from immediate tactical needs to long-term strategic direction.

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated leadership with substantial experience in managing and mentoring Engineering teams, including performance evaluations, career development, and fostering a collaborative work environment • Background building and operating production services with high availability and performance targets. • Expertise managing on call rotations and incident response • A highly technical manager, able to independently evaluate complex technical tradeoffs in design conversations while leaning on experts in the team for design and implementation • Experience developing in Go, used for much of the system • Ability to give and process constructive feedback, as well as work independently • Flexibility to adjust to the dynamic nature of a startup.

🏖️ Benefits

• An inclusive, flexible environment where you can be your authentic self. • A competitive total compensation package. • Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period. • Remote first company—most of our teams work fully remotely. • Employer-funded retirement contributions. • Connect with other Tailscalars IRL. • Support for your personal and professional development. • Paid time off and a healthy work-life integration. • A build-your-own home office setup. • Paid parental leave program