# Customer Reliability Engineer at Tailscale

- Company: Tailscale
- What the company does: The connectivity platform for devs, IT, and security teams. Zero Trust identity-based access that deploys in minutes and scales to every resource. Start free. Backed by Accel, Insight and CRV.
- Company website: https://tailscale.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Remote (United States)
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-07-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tailscale/jobs/4715160005
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/tailscale-customer-reliability-engineer/

## About the role

If you're passionate about solving complex technical problems and helping build trust between customers and engineering, this is the role for you. We're seeking a motivated Customer Reliability Engineer to join our team. You'll take ownership of our most complex, ambiguous customer escalations, solving issues where the root cause is not always obvious. You will work these issues to resolution or alternatively a fully-documented handoff that engineering can act on without delay.

## What they're looking for

- 4+ years in a technical support or escalation role at a SaaS or infrastructure company, with demonstrated ownership of escalated/enterprise-tier accounts
- A genuine problem-solver who gets energy from untangling hard, ambiguous technical issues
- Comfortable owning a live, high-stakes customer call: staying calm, building trust, and communicating clearly with a frustrated or technical customer under pressure
- Hands-on networking experience in production or homelab environments: TCP/IP, routing, DNS, firewalls, NAT, VPNs, load balancers
- Deep familiarity with overlay networking concepts — WireGuard, UDP hole punching, STUN — and comparable VPN/networking products
- Code-level debugging capability: can read Go source, reason about goroutines/locks/channels, read pprof CPU/heap profiles, and understand network interface semantics

Tags: Customer Support