Developer Relations Engineer

About this role

Build and improve the developer experience across Tailscale’s connectivity products and expanding portfolio. Create technical projects and resources that help developers understand, adopt, and build with Tailscale, while sharing findings through community channels and events.

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.

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What you'll do

• Build and explain demos, sample apps, tools, and open-source projects
• Create developer-facing docs, tutorials, blog posts, videos, talks, and workshops
• Investigate technical issues and turn developer feedback into improvements to docs, APIs, examples, and workflows
• Collaborate with engineering, product, marketing, support, and community stakeholders
• Manage multiple workstreams and meet 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 and useful technical content for developers
• Curiosity about systems, especially networking, infrastructure, security, identity, cloud, AI, or developer tooling
• Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills
• Experience presenting technical topics to audiences
• Comfort contributing in public through GitHub, forums, social channels, or open-source projects
• Developer empathy, product sense, independence, and ability to drive cross-functional projects
• Comfort discussing technical tradeoffs and traveling for events

Nice to have

• Experience with Go, networking, VPNs, WireGuard, identity, access controls, infrastructure automation, or security products
• Experience creating developer education programs, sample apps, workshops, videos, or conference talks
• Public technical writing, speaking, demos, open-source contributions, or community work
• Experience with homelabs, self-hosting, local AI, or infrastructure experiments
• Familiarity with secure AI access, privileged access management, or zero-trust security

Benefits

• Equity incentive plan
• Health, vision, and dental coverage
• Remote-first work and coworking support
• Employer retirement contributions matched up to 0.75% of eligible compensation
• Annual professional development budget of $1,500 USD
• Flexible paid time off
• Home office equipment budget of $500 USD and monthly internet reimbursement
• Paid parental leave top-ups: 20 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents