Developer Relations Engineer

📋 Description

• Develop and sustain demos, 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.

• Represent Tailscale at events, conferences, meetups, community gatherings, and discussions oriented towards developers.

• Collaborate closely with engineering, product, marketing, support, and community teams to identify challenges faced by developers and convert that feedback into enhanced product experiences.

• Assist developers in comprehending Tailscale’s fundamental connectivity product, along with newer product domains such as secure AI access, privileged access management, identity, infrastructure security, and developer tools.

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

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

• Help shape what an excellent developer experience looks like at Tailscale, from initial engagement to production use.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

• Profound curiosity about system functionalities, particularly in networking, infrastructure, security, identity, cloud, open-source, or developer tooling domains.

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

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

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

• Strong developer empathy, emotional intelligence, and product awareness. You recognize friction points, understand their significance, and can transform that insight into improved documentation, APIs, examples, workflows, and product experiences.

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

• Capable of working autonomously, selecting high-impact projects, and driving them from concept to execution.

• Proficient in managing multiple workstreams and adhering to regular publishing, event, or launch deadlines.

• Comfortable presenting on stage and on camera to developer audiences.

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

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

• Strong foundational knowledge in software engineering, whether acquired through formal education, professional experience, open-source contributions, self-directed learning, or the development of ambitious personal projects.

• A history of building and elucidating technical systems. This may include production software, developer tools, infrastructure projects, open-source contributions, home lab experiments, local AI setups, networking projects, or any other examples that demonstrate your thought processes.

• If your background is unconventional, we still encourage you to apply. Share your GitHub repositories, blog articles, diagrams, configurations, presentations, demos, lab notes, or the specific narrative of how your home lab is structured.

• Comfortable discussing technical trade-offs in detail, such as explaining what you built, the rationale behind it, challenges faced, lessons learned, and what you would approach differently next time.

🏝️ Benefits

• An inclusive and flexible environment that allows you to be your authentic self.

• A competitive total compensation package.

• Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period.

• A remote-first company—most of our 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.

• A generous parental leave program from your first day.