Developer Relations Engineer

📋 Description

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

• Generate technical content for developers, including blog articles, documentation, videos, presentations, workshops, livestreams, and conference sessions.

• Act as a representative for Tailscale at events, conferences, meetups, community engagements, and discussions aimed at developers.

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

• Assist developers in comprehending Tailscale’s core connectivity product, along with newer product 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, and other developer feedback channels.

• Help establish what an exceptional developer experience entails at Tailscale, from initial engagement to production use.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Capability to produce clear, effective code samples, demos, tutorials, and technical materials for developer audiences.

• Profound curiosity about system functionalities, particularly in 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 innovatively.

• Experience in engaging with technical audiences through conferences, meetups, livestreams, workshops, podcasts, videos, or internal engineering discussions.

• Comfortable participating in public forums via GitHub issues, pull requests, community discussions, social media, open source projects, and developer feedback loops.

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

• Ability to work collaboratively across engineering, product, marketing, support, community, and other technical stakeholders.

• Comfortable operating independently, selecting high-impact projects, and seeing them through from inception to execution.

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

• Comfortable presenting on stage and on 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.

• Strong software engineering fundamentals acquired through formal education, professional experience, open source contributions, self-directed learning, or ambitious personal projects.

• A proven track record of building and explaining technical systems.

🏝️ Benefits

• An inclusive, flexible environment that encourages you to be your authentic self.

• A competitive total compensation package.

• Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period.

• Remote-first company—most teams operate fully remotely.

• Opportunities to connect with fellow Tailscalars in real life.

• Support for your personal and professional growth.

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

• A customizable home office setup.

• Generous parental leave program available from your first day.