Developer Relations Engineer

• Join Tailscale as a Developer Relations Engineer, working fully remotely from the UK. • Own and improve the developer experience across Tailscale's expanding product portfolio. • Help developers understand, adopt, extend and build with the core VPN and connectivity product. • Shape how that experience evolves as Tailscale moves into areas like secure AI access (Aperture) and privileged access management (PAM). • Turn technical curiosity into demos, docs, talks, blog posts, sample apps, workshops, videos, tools and open source contributions. • Work in a fully distributed, remote-first company backed by Accel, CRV, Insight, Heavybit and Uncork Capital.

• Bring strong software engineering fundamentals, with experience building, debugging and shipping real projects through work, open source or personal projects. • Create clear developer-facing materials such as code samples, demos, tutorials, docs, blog posts, videos and talks. • Show deep curiosity about how systems work across networking, infrastructure, security, identity, cloud, AI or developer tooling. • Present confidently to technical audiences at conferences, meetups, livestreams, workshops or internal forums. • Communicate complex technical ideas clearly in writing, in speech and visually. • Work comfortably in public through GitHub issues, pull requests, community forums and social channels. • Collaborate across engineering, product, marketing, support and community teams while working independently. • Travel for events, conferences and community moments.

• Have experience with Go, networking, VPNs, WireGuard, identity, access controls, infrastructure automation or security products. • Show experience building developer education programmes, sample apps, workshops, technical video content or conference talks. • Bring a visible history of technical writing, talks, demos, open source contributions or community work. • Know secure AI access, privileged access management, zero trust or modern infrastructure security patterns. • Have hands-on experience with homelabs, self-hosting or local AI models.

• Own and improve the developer experience across Tailscale's product portfolio. • Build demos, sample apps, tools and open source contributions that help developers adopt Tailscale. • Write docs, tutorials and blog posts that explain technical topics clearly. • Speak at conferences and run workshops, livestreams and videos for developer audiences. • Investigate APIs, GitHub issues and networking edge cases, and turn the findings into clearer resources. • Translate developer feedback and friction into better docs, APIs, examples and product experiences. • Work with engineering, product, marketing, support and community teams on high-impact projects. • Manage multiple workstreams and meet regular publishing, event and launch deadlines.

• Earn £100,330–£111,390 base salary, plus an equity incentive plan. • Work in a remote-first company, with a monthly home internet reimbursement and access to co-working spaces through a corporate programme. • Choose your own company-owned laptop (Mac or PC) and receive $500 USD to customise your workstation. • Enjoy flexible paid time off and flexible working hours. • Take parental leave top-ups of 20 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents. • Access group health, vision and dental cover for you and your family with no waiting period. • Receive employer retirement contributions, matched up to 0.75% of eligible compensation. • Use $1,500 USD a year for professional development, plus mentorship and coaching. • Meet colleagues in person at the annual company retreat and team off-sites.

Tailscale makes it easy to securely connect people and their devices, wherever they are, and is used by teams from hobbyists to multinational corporations. Founded in 2019 and fully distributed, it is backed by Accel, CRV, Insight, Heavybit and Uncork Capital.