Developer Relations Engineer

📋 Description

• Develop and sustain demos, sample applications, reference architectures, tutorials, and technical tools that assist developers in grasping the capabilities of Tailscale.

• Produce technical content tailored for developers, which includes blog entries, documentation, videos, presentations, workshops, livestreams, and conference sessions.

• Represent Tailscale at various events, conferences, meetups, community gatherings, and discussions aimed at developers.

• Collaborate closely with engineering, product, marketing, support, and community teams to pinpoint developer challenges and transform that feedback into enhanced product experiences.

• Aid developers in understanding Tailscale’s primary connectivity product, along with emerging areas such as secure AI access, privileged access management, identity, infrastructure security, and developer tooling.

• Contribute to open source initiatives, examples, and integrations where applicable.

• Engage in public technical discussions through GitHub issues, pull requests, community forums, social media channels, and other developer feedback mechanisms.

• Help shape what an exceptional developer experience looks like at Tailscale, from initial interaction to production usage.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong foundation in software engineering, with proven experience in building, debugging, and delivering real-world projects.

• Capability to create clear and valuable code samples, demos, tutorials, and technical content for developer audiences.

• Profound curiosity about system operations, particularly in areas like networking, infrastructure, security, identity, cloud, open source, or developer tooling.

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly and creatively.

• Experience addressing technical audiences, whether through conferences, meetups, livestreams, workshops, podcasts, videos, or internal engineering discussions.

• Comfortable engaging publicly via GitHub issues, pull requests, community forums, social media channels, open source projects, and developer feedback loops.

• Strong developer empathy, emotional intelligence, and product insight.

• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, marketing, support, community, and other technical stakeholders.

• Capable of working independently, selecting high-impact projects, and seeing them through from conception to execution.

• Ability to manage multiple workflows and adhere to regular publishing, event, or launch timelines.

• Comfortable presenting on stage and in front of the camera to developer audiences.

• Willingness to travel for events, conferences, and community engagements.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Proven history of constructing and elucidating technical systems.

🏝️ 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 in real life.

• Support for your personal and professional development.

• Paid time off and a healthy work-life integration.

• A customizable home office setup.

• Generous parental leave program from your first day.