Developer Relations Engineer

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About the role

  • Developer Relations Engineer improving developer experience across Tailscale’s product portfolio. Building demos, content, and community engagement for Tailscale's connectivity product.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain demos, sample apps, reference architectures, tutorials, and technical tools that help developers understand what they can do with Tailscale.
  • Create technical content for developers, including blog posts, docs, videos, talks, workshops, livestreams, and conference sessions.
  • Represent Tailscale at events, conferences, meetups, community moments, and developer-facing conversations.
  • Work closely with engineering, product, marketing, support, and community teams to identify developer friction and turn that feedback into better product experiences.
  • Help developers understand Tailscale’s core connectivity product, as well as newer product areas such as secure AI access, privileged access management, identity, infrastructure security, and developer tooling.
  • Contribute to open source projects, examples, and integrations where it makes sense.
  • Participate in public technical conversations through GitHub issues, pull requests, community forums, social channels, and other developer feedback loops.
  • Help define what great developer experience looks like at Tailscale, from first touch to production usage.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering background, with demonstrable experience building, debugging, and shipping real projects.
  • Ability to write clear, useful code samples, demos, tutorials, and technical content for developer audiences.
  • Deep curiosity about how systems work, especially across networking, infrastructure, security, identity, cloud, open source, or developer tooling.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical ideas clearly and creatively.
  • Experience speaking to technical audiences, whether through conferences, meetups, livestreams, workshops, podcasts, videos, or internal engineering forums.
  • Comfortable working in public via GitHub issues, pull requests, community forums, social channels, open source projects, and developer feedback loops.
  • Strong developer empathy, emotional intelligence, and product sense.
  • Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, product, marketing, support, community, and other technical stakeholders.
  • Comfortable operating independently, choosing high-impact projects, and following them through from idea to execution.
  • Ability to manage multiple workstreams and meet regular publishing, event, or launch deadlines.
  • Comfortable presenting on stage and on camera to developer audiences.
  • Willingness to travel for events, conferences, and community moments.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • A track record of building and explaining technical systems.

Benefits

  • An inclusive, flexible environment where you can be your authentic self.
  • A competitive total compensation package.
  • Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period.
  • Remote first company—most of our teams work fully remotely.
  • Connect with other Tailscalars IRL.
  • Support for your personal and professional development.
  • Paid time off and a healthy work-life integration.
  • A build-your-own home office setup.
  • Generous parental leave program from your first day.

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

CA$191,620 - CA$239,860 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

CloudOpen Source

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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