170K–189K CAD / year
Developer Relations Engineer
OtherRemote — Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Published on 2026-11-13
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About this role
Own and improve the developer experience across Tailscale’s connectivity products and emerging areas such as secure AI access and privileged access management. Build and explain technical projects through code samples, demos, documentation, talks, workshops, and other developer-facing content.
About the company
Tailscale builds a zero-config mesh VPN on WireGuard so teams can securely connect devices, servers, and cloud resources without traditional VPN complexity.
Stack
GoVPNWireGuardAInetworkingidentitycloud
What you'll do
- Create developer-facing materials, including code samples, demos, tutorials, documentation, and talks
- Investigate technical systems and turn findings into useful resources for developers
- Improve developer experience by identifying friction in docs, APIs, examples, and workflows
- Work across engineering, product, marketing, support, and community
- Drive projects independently and manage multiple publishing, event, and launch deadlines
What we're looking for
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building, debugging, and shipping projects
- Ability to create clear technical content and explain complex ideas
- Curiosity about networking, infrastructure, security, identity, cloud, open source, AI, or developer tooling
- Experience presenting to technical audiences
- Comfort working publicly with developer communities and open source
- Strong developer empathy, product sense, and cross-functional communication
- Ability to discuss technical tradeoffs and travel for events
Nice to have
- Experience with Go, networking, VPNs, WireGuard, identity, access controls, or security products
- Experience building developer education programs, sample apps, workshops, technical videos, or conference talks
- Public technical writing, talks, demos, open source contributions, or community work
- Experience with homelabs, self-hosting, local AI models, or infrastructure experiments
- Familiarity with secure AI access, privileged access management, or zero-trust security
Benefits
- Equity incentive plan
- Health, vision, and dental coverage
- Employer retirement matching up to 0.75% of eligible compensation
- $1,500 USD annual professional development budget
- Flexible paid time off
- Remote-first work and coworking program
- Company laptop, monthly internet reimbursement, and $500 USD home-office budget
- Paid parental leave: 20 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents