Senior Customer Support Engineer (Tier 3), Customer Escalations
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TailscaleInfrastructure SaaS
Tailscale is a remote-first company with teammates across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Singapore.Full-TimeSenior
Salary£90,850—£113,760 GBP
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Job Details
- Experience
- 4+ years in a technical support or escalation role
- Required Skills
- PythonKubernetesGoLinuxJSONDebuggingNetworking
Requirements
- 4+ years in a technical support or escalation role at a SaaS or infrastructure company.
- Demonstrated ownership of escalated or enterprise-tier accounts.
- 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 VPN products.
- Code-level debugging capability including reading Go source, goroutines, locks, channels, and pprof profiles.
- Infrastructure knowledge: cloud IaaS, CI/CD pipelines, containerized applications, and Kubernetes debugging.
- Systems administration and troubleshooting across Linux, macOS, and Windows.
- Experience building reproducible test cases and evidence-backed bug reports.
- Proficiency with programming or scripting in Go, Python, and JSON.
- Experience with packet-level analysis.
- Strong technical storytelling skills for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Own high-severity, post-sales technical escalations from intake through resolution or engineering handoff.
- Perform deep-dive investigations and reproduction of difficult-to-isolate bugs.
- Lead customer calls to gather information, pull logs, and communicate technical theories.
- Build comprehensive engineering handoff packages including log evidence, version matrix, and impact scope.
- File and track confirmed bug issues to ensure engineering maintains customer context.
- Monitor escalation patterns to identify systemic issues and create documentation or tooling to improve support operations.
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