Developer Relations Engineer

Role Overview

• 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.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, whether gained through formal education, professional experience, open source work, self-directed learning, or building ambitious projects on your own.
• A track record of building and explaining technical systems.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Open Source

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.