Developer Relations Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop and sustain demos, sample applications, reference architectures, tutorials, and technical tools that assist developers in understanding Tailscale's capabilities.

• Produce technical content aimed at developers, which includes blog posts, documentation, videos, presentations, workshops, livestreams, and conference sessions.

• Represent Tailscale at various events, conferences, meetups, community gatherings, and in developer-related discussions.

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

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

• Make contributions to open-source projects, examples, and integrations whenever appropriate.

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

• Help establish the vision for an exceptional developer experience at Tailscale, from initial contact to production usage.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

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

• Exceptional 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 working in public forums via GitHub issues, pull requests, community forums, social media, open-source projects, and developer feedback mechanisms.

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

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

• Comfortable working autonomously, selecting high-impact projects, and seeing them through from conception to execution.

• Skilled at managing multiple workstreams and adhering to regular publication, event, or launch deadlines.

• At ease presenting on stage and on camera to developer audiences.

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

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

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

• A history of building and explaining technical systems, which may include production software, developer tools, infrastructure projects, open-source contributions, home lab experiments, local AI setups, networking projects, or any other evidence of your thought process.

• If your background is non-traditional, we encourage you to apply. Share with us your GitHub repositories, blog entries, diagrams, configurations, presentations, demos, lab notes, or the specific narrative of how your home lab is constructed.

• Comfort in discussing technical trade-offs in detail, such as explaining what you built, why you built it, what challenges you faced, what you learned, and what you would do differently next time.

🏝️ Benefits

• An inclusive and flexible environment where you can express 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 other 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 effective from your first day.