Documentation Platform Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Develop, maintain, enhance, and support Tailscale’s documentation platform and tools.

• Continuously refine the customer-facing documentation site tailored for homelabbers, developers, enterprises, and their agents.

• Oversee and augment docs-as-code tooling and content publishing workflows.

• Empower internal teams and external contributors to swiftly publish error-free content.

• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to integrate documentation with the Tailscale platform.

• Work alongside design, user research, and growth teams to transition experiments and features into production.

• Shape and optimize search and discovery infrastructure.

• Interact with open source contributors via GitHub discussions, issues, and pull requests.

• Monitor platform performance and ensure scalability for millions of monthly visitors.

• Investigate, experiment, and assess documentation trends and outcomes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated success in building, extending, maintaining, and deploying documentation sites using tools like Hugo, Docusaurus, NextJS, Astro, or similar.

• Knowledge of docs-as-code publication workflows.

• Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and React.

• Familiarity with Python, command-line interfaces, shell scripting, and Git.

• Skilled in modern HTML and CSS with the ability to implement provided designs.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and automation for content or documentation workflows.

• Capability to articulate the impact and implications of LLMs as application-development tools and documentation users.

• Open source experience and comfort engaging with GitHub contributors (preferred).

• Understanding of how LLMs consume and interact with documentation (preferred).

• Knowledge of multi-format content output including HTML, JSON, XML, raw Markdown, PDF, and ePub (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Base salary, equity incentive plan, and variable commission for quota-based roles.

• Comprehensive health, vision, and dental benefits with no waiting period for employees and their families.

• Flexible remote-first work environment.

• Virtual and in-person social events.

• Corporate co-working program.

• Employer-funded retirement contributions matching employee contributions dollar-for-dollar, up to 0.75% of eligible compensation annually.

• Annual company retreat and team off-sites.

• $1,500 USD annually for professional development.

• Mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities.

• Flexible paid time off.

• Company-owned laptop choice between Mac or PC.

• Monthly home internet reimbursement.

• $500 USD home office setup allowance.

• Paid parental leave top-ups: 20 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents.