Key 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.
What We Are Looking For
- 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.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Go, networking, VPNs, WireGuard, identity, access controls, infrastructure automation, or security products.
- Experience building developer education programs, sample apps, workshops, technical video content, or conference talks.
- A visible history of technical writing, talks, demos, open source contributions, or community work.
- Experience with homelabs, self-hosting, local AI models, infrastructure experiments, or other projects.
- Familiarity with secure AI access, privileged access management, zero trust, or modern infrastructure security patterns.
- Familiarity with open source contribution workflows and technical collaboration in public.
Compensation
US Pay Range: $143,000 - $179,000 USD (base salary, plus equity and comprehensive benefits).