Frontend Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction and architecture of Tailscale’s next-generation web console.
• Build frontend infrastructure and platform capabilities that enable multiple products to ship within a unified console experience.
• Design and maintain cross-origin authentication and session infrastructure, including auth flows, CORS policies, CSRF protections, cookie/session strategies, and support for multiple deployment environments.
• Build and operate a frontend serving platform capable of hosting multiple products under a unified development workflow.
• Establish shared infrastructure, conventions, and design patterns that consolidate distinct product experiences into a cohesive console platform.
• Create frontend architecture patterns, tooling, and abstractions that enable non-frontend engineers to build accessible, production-quality UI safely and efficiently.
• Partner with Product Design to turn complex infrastructure and identity concepts into intuitive user experiences.
• Collaborate with Growth, Design, Product, and engineering teams on experimentation and iteration, including A/B testing, analytics instrumentation, and feature rollout strategies.
• Define and improve frontend testing strategy, including integration testing, end-to-end coverage, local developer ergonomics, and abstractions that reduce testing complexity.
• Improve local development workflows, build pipelines, preview deployments, release ergonomics, and operational reliability with infrastructure and engineering tooling teams.
• Provide technical leadership through reviews, mentoring, and frontend platform guardrails.
• Participate in the on-call rotation every few weeks to triage and mitigate incidents.

Requirements

• Deep experience building and operating production React applications at scale.
• Strong understanding of HTTP semantics, browser security boundaries, authentication flows, cookies, storage, CORS, and CSRF.
• Experience building internal platforms, frameworks, or shared libraries that enable teams to ship products with strong guardrails.
• Experience driving a unified console or platform vision across disparate frontend codebases.
• Strong judgment around frontend architecture, standardization, abstraction, and long-term maintainability.
• Experience designing scalable frontend testing strategies.
• Comfort collaborating across design, growth, infrastructure, and developer tooling functions.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain tradeoffs and influence technical direction.
• High ownership and autonomy, with the ability to identify important problems and drive them through ambiguity.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience designing frontend codebases and tooling optimized for AI-assisted development.
• Experience with design systems, component libraries, and connecting design tooling to production UI workflows.
• Experience with feature flagging, analytics, experimentation systems, and progressive delivery patterns.
• Experience with identity, admin, B2B SaaS, or security-sensitive product surfaces.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary range: $242,540–$302,840 CAD.
• Equity incentive plan and comprehensive benefits.
• Health, vision, dental, and other group benefits with no waiting period.
• Remote-first, flexible work environment with virtual and in-person social events and a corporate coworking program.
• Employer-funded retirement contributions matching employee contributions dollar-for-dollar, up to 0.75% of eligible compensation annually.
• Annual company retreat, team off-sites, and support for intentional in-person connection.
• $1,500 USD annually for professional development, plus mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Company-owned laptop, monthly home internet reimbursement, and $500 USD for a home office setup.
• Paid parental leave.