218K–273K CAD / year
Front End Engineer
FrontendRemote — Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Published on 2026-11-02
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About this role
Lead the architecture and development of Tailscale’s next-generation web console, creating a unified platform for multiple products. The role combines frontend product engineering with platform work, with a focus on authentication, sessions, browser security, and enabling teams to build reliable user interfaces.
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
- Set frontend architecture, application structure, routing, and shared abstractions for the console
- Build cross-origin authentication and session infrastructure, including CORS and CSRF protections
- Develop a serving platform and shared conventions for hosting multiple products in a unified console
- Create tools and patterns that help teams build accessible, production-quality UI
- Partner with design, growth, product, infrastructure, and tooling teams on user experience and delivery
- Improve frontend testing, local development, build pipelines, deployments, and operational reliability
- Provide technical leadership through reviews, mentoring, and platform guardrails
- Participate in the on-call rotation
What we're looking for
- Deep experience building and operating production React applications at scale
- Strong knowledge of HTTP, browser security, authentication, cookies, storage, CORS, and CSRF
- Experience building internal platforms, frameworks, or shared libraries for other teams
- Experience driving a unified console or platform across disparate frontend codebases
- Strong frontend architecture and testing strategy judgment
- Cross-functional collaboration, communication, ownership, and autonomy
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, or progressive delivery
- Experience in identity, admin, B2B SaaS, or security-sensitive products
Benefits
- Equity incentive plan
- Health, vision, and dental coverage for employees and family, with no waiting period
- Remote-first work and corporate coworking program
- Employer retirement contributions matched dollar-for-dollar up to 0.75% of eligible compensation
- Annual company retreat and team off-sites
- $1,500 USD annual professional development budget
- Flexible paid time off
- Company-provided laptop, monthly internet reimbursement, and $500 USD home-office budget