Customer Reliability Engineer
Tailscale· Customer Support
RemoteCA$154.1k - CA$193kfull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Role focused on owning high-severity customer escalations, coordinating with Success/Support/Product-Eng to provide clear engineering handoffs, and driving root-cause analysis and product improvements.
Responsibilities
- Own high-severity, post-sales technical escalations from intake through resolution or engineering handoff. This includes deep-dive investigations and reproduction of difficult-to-isolate bugs.
Qualifications
- 4+ years in a technical support or escalation role at a SaaS or infrastructure company, with demonstrated ownership of escalated/enterprise-tier accounts.
Skills
Required:Post-sales technical escalation managementDeep-dive debugging and reproductionCustomer communication under pressureNetworking and overlay networking expertiseGo/Python/JSON scriptingPacket-level analysisCloud/infrastructure conceptsSystems administration across Linux/macOS/WindowsGo/Python/JSONReproducible test case development and bug reporting
Benefits
- An inclusive, flexible environment where you can be your authentic self.
- A competitive total compensation package (base salary, equity, variable compensation for quota-based roles).
- Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period (health, vision, dental, and more).
- Remote first company with opportunities for in-person collaboration as noted in roles.
- Employer-funded retirement contributions (company match up to 0.75% of eligible compensation).
- Annual company retreat and team off-sites; in-person collaboration across multiple regions.
- $1500 USD annually for professional development; mentorship and internal promotion opportunities.
- Paid time off with flexible PTO program.
- Build-your-own home office setup (laptop choice, internet reimbursement, $500 USD for workstation).
- Paid parental leave program (20 weeks birthing, 16 weeks non-birthing).
Last updated Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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