2 days ago
Remote, United StatesMid Level
Base Salary
$127k - $141k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and improve the developer experience across Tailscale’s expanding product portfolio.
- Build and ship demos, sample applications, tools, documentation, blog posts, videos, talks, workshops, and open source contributions.
- Investigate APIs, GitHub issues, networking edge cases, and technical systems to produce clearer developer-facing guidance.
- Present technical concepts through conferences, meetups, livestreams, workshops, podcasts, videos, and internal engineering forums.
- Work publicly through GitHub issues, pull requests, community forums, social channels, open source projects, and developer feedback loops.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, marketing, support, community, and other technical stakeholders while independently driving high-impact projects.
- Manage multiple publishing, event, and launch workstreams and travel for events, conferences, and community activities.
Requirements
- Demonstrated software engineering experience building, debugging, and shipping real projects through professional work, open source, self-directed learning, or personal projects.
- Ability to create clear developer-facing code samples, demos, tutorials, documentation, blog posts, videos, talks, and workshops.
- Curiosity and technical depth across areas such as networking, infrastructure, security, identity, cloud, open source, AI, and developer tooling.
- Track record of building and explaining technical systems, including production software, developer tools, infrastructure projects, homelabs, networking experiments, or open source contributions.
- Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical ideas clearly and practically.
- Experience presenting to technical audiences and working in public through developer and open source communities.
- Strong developer empathy, emotional intelligence, and product sense, with the ability to identify friction and translate it into better documentation, APIs, examples, workflows, and product experiences.
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple workstreams, discuss technical tradeoffs, meet publishing and launch deadlines, and travel for events.
- Experience with Go, networking, VPNs, WireGuard, identity, access controls, infrastructure automation, security products, developer education, technical content, homelabs, self-hosting, local AI models, secure AI access, privileged access management, zero trust, or open source workflows is preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Inclusive and flexible work environment with flexible work practices.
- Remote-first company with mostly fully remote teams and access to corporate coworking spaces.
- Health, vision, dental, and other group benefits with no waiting period.
- Employer retirement contribution matching.
- Annual company retreat, team off-sites, and support for in-person collaboration and travel.
- Professional development support, mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Company-owned laptop choice between Mac or PC, monthly home internet reimbursement, and home-office setup support.
- Paid parental leave with top-ups for birthing and non-birthing parents.
About Tailscale
Tailscale builds a software-defined mesh VPN that lets individuals and organizations securely connect devices and services using WireGuard and single sign-on. It sells a subscription SaaS with free and paid plans, offering features like access control lists, device authentication, and admin tooling for teams and enterprises. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Toronto, the company is privately held and used from hobby projects to corporate networks.