Developer Relations Engineer

1 hour, 48 minutes ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
Tailscale

Tailscale

Tailscale is a zero config VPN service that simplifies network security and connectivity for teams of any scale, offering easy deployment, minimal latency, and compatibility with existing services.

Diversified Telecommunication Services
51-250
Founded 2019
$115M raised

Description

  • Build and maintain demos, sample apps, reference architectures, tutorials, and technical tools for developers.
  • Create technical content including blog posts, documentation, videos, talks, workshops, livestreams, and conference sessions.
  • Represent Tailscale at events, conferences, meetups, and other developer-facing community conversations.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, marketing, support, and community teams to identify developer friction and improve product experiences.
  • Help developers understand and adopt Tailscale’s core connectivity product and newer offerings such as secure AI access, privileged access management, identity, infrastructure security, and developer tooling.
  • Contribute to open source projects, examples, and integrations where appropriate.
  • Participate in public technical discussions through GitHub issues, pull requests, community forums, and social channels.
  • Define and improve what great developer experience looks like from first touch through 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 systems, especially across networking, infrastructure, security, identity, cloud, open source, or developer tooling.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for explaining complex technical ideas clearly and creatively.
  • Experience speaking to technical audiences through conferences, meetups, livestreams, workshops, podcasts, videos, or internal engineering forums.
  • Comfortable working in public through GitHub issues, pull requests, community forums, social channels, open source projects, and 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 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.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals gained through education, professional experience, open source work, self-directed learning, or ambitious personal projects.
  • A track record of building and explaining technical systems such as production software, developer tools, infrastructure projects, open source contributions, homelab experiments, local AI setups, or networking projects.
  • Ability to discuss technical tradeoffs in detail, including what you built, why you built it, what broke, what you learned, and what you would do differently.
  • Experience with Go, networking, VPNs, WireGuard, identity, access controls, infrastructure automation, or security products (preferred).
  • Experience building developer education programs, sample apps, workshops, technical video content, or conference talks (preferred).
  • A visible history of technical writing, talks, demos, open source contributions, or community work (preferred).
  • Experience with homelabs, self-hosting, local AI models, infrastructure experiments, or similar hands-on projects (preferred).
  • Familiarity with secure AI access, privileged access management, zero trust, or modern infrastructure security patterns (preferred).
  • Familiarity with open source contribution workflows and technical collaboration in public (preferred).

Benefits

  • Competitive total compensation package with base salary, equity incentive plan, and variable commission for quota-based roles.
  • Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period, including health, vision, dental, and more for you and your family.
  • Remote-first work environment with flexibility in where and when you work.
  • $1,500 USD annually for professional development, plus mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities.
  • Flexible paid time off to support work-life integration.
  • Home office support including a company-owned laptop, monthly home internet reimbursement, and $1,000 USD to customize your workstation.
  • Generous parental leave from day one, with parental leave top-ups for up to 26 weeks.
  • Opportunities for in-person connection through annual retreats, team off-sites, and corporate co-working support.

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