163K–204K USD / year
Front End Engineer
FrontendRemote — United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Singapore
Published on 2026-11-02
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About this role
Lead frontend architecture and platform development for Tailscale’s next-generation web console. Build a secure, unified experience that supports multiple products, with a focus on identity, authentication, and enabling other teams to deliver reliable UI.
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
React
What you'll do
- Define the console’s frontend architecture, application structure, and shared abstractions
- Build cross-origin authentication and session infrastructure, including CORS and CSRF protections
- Develop a frontend serving platform and shared patterns for multiple products
- Create tooling and guardrails that help other engineers build accessible, production-quality UI
- Improve frontend testing, developer workflows, build pipelines, and operational reliability
- Partner across design, growth, product, infrastructure, and engineering teams
- Participate in the on-call rotation
What we're looking for
- Deep experience building and operating production React applications at scale
- Strong understanding of HTTP, browser security, authentication, cookies, storage, CORS, and CSRF
- Experience building internal platforms, frameworks, or shared libraries
- Experience unifying disparate frontend codebases into a console or platform
- Sound frontend architecture judgment and experience designing scalable testing strategies
- Strong cross-functional communication, ownership, and ability to work through ambiguity
Nice to have
- Experience optimizing frontend codebases for AI-assisted development
- Experience with design systems, component libraries, and design-to-production workflows
- Experience with feature flags, analytics, experimentation, and progressive delivery
- Experience with identity, admin, B2B SaaS, or security-sensitive products
Benefits
- Equity incentive plan
- Health, vision, and dental coverage
- Employer retirement contributions matched up to 0.75% of eligible compensation
- Flexible paid time off
- Paid parental leave: 20 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Remote-work and coworking support
- $1,500 annual professional development allowance
- Company laptop, monthly internet reimbursement, and $500 home-office allowance