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.
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