Frontend Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Take charge of the technical direction and architecture of Tailscale’s next-generation web console.

• Develop frontend infrastructure and platform capabilities that facilitate the launch of multiple Tailscale products within a cohesive console experience.

• Focus specifically on identity-related frontend systems, encompassing authentication, session management, and secure cross-origin integrations.

• Define and lead the frontend architecture for Tailscale’s next-generation console.

• Design and uphold cross-origin authentication and session infrastructure between the console and other services.

• Construct and manage a frontend serving platform that can host a variety of Tailscale products.

• Establish shared infrastructure, conventions, and design patterns that unify distinct product experiences into a seamless console platform.

• Develop frontend architecture patterns, tooling, and abstractions that empower non-frontend engineers to create accessible, production-quality UI efficiently and safely.

• Collaborate closely with Product Design to translate complex infrastructure and identity concepts into user-friendly experiences.

• Work together with Growth, Design, Product, and other engineering teams on experimentation and iteration.

• Define and enhance the frontend testing strategy across the console.

• Partner with infrastructure and engineering tooling teams to optimize local development workflows.

• Elevate the quality standards for frontend engineering across Tailscale through technical leadership, reviews, mentoring, and well-defined platform guidelines.

• Participate in our on-call rotation every few weeks to address and mitigate incidents.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in building and managing production React applications at scale.

• Strong grasp of web platform fundamentals, including HTTP semantics, browser security boundaries, authentication flows, cookies, storage, CORS, and CSRF.

• Proven experience in creating internal platforms, frameworks, or shared libraries that allow other teams to deliver products with robust guardrails.

• Experience in steering a unified console or platform vision across diverse frontend codebases.

• Strong judgment regarding frontend architecture: knowing when to standardize, when to abstract, and how to maintain system clarity as they evolve.

• Experience in designing scalable frontend testing strategies that enhance confidence while minimizing incidental complexity for product engineers.

• Comfortable collaborating across disciplines and functions, particularly with design, growth, infrastructure, and developer tooling.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to articulate trade-offs and influence technical direction across teams.

• A strong sense of ownership and autonomy, with the ability to identify significant challenges and navigate through uncertainties.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance.

• 401(k) matching.

• Flexible work hours.

• Paid time off.

• Professional development opportunities.

• Remote-first company.

• Company retreat and off-sites.

• Parental leave program.

• Build-your-own home office setup.