Senior AI Enablement Engineer — Internal Tools

Devconnectplatform; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 129,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Professional development budget

Equity

Job summary

Tailscale is hiring a Software Engineer, AI Enablement to accelerate AI-assisted development across our engineering org. You’ll join a small, high-leverage team shaping tools, workflows, and practices that help engineers build faster and safer with AI.

You will own internal tooling, evaluate models, set guardrails, and measure impact on velocity and quality, reporting to leadership. Strong Go/Rust and Python experience, plus communication skills, are valued.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Daily hands-on fluency with modern AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Pi, or similar).
• Experience building and shipping internal tools or developer-facing automation.
• Strong written and verbal communication and internal advocacy skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering leadership to define and drive the internal AI-enablement roadmap.
• Build and iterate tools and workflows to help engineers write safer, faster AI-generated code.
• Evaluate models and coding agents, selecting tools with clear rationale.
• Measure adoption and impact on velocity and code quality; report to leadership.

Skills

AI tooling fluency

Internal tools development

Communication & advocacy

Self-directed prioritization

Tools

Aperture by Tailscale

Go

Rust

Python

Claude Code / Codex / Pi

Job description

Tailscale is hiring a Software Engineer, AI Enablement to accelerate AI-assisted development across our engineering org. You’ll join a small, high-leverage team shaping tools, workflows, and practices that help engineers build faster and safer with AI.

You will own internal tooling, evaluate models, set guardrails, and measure impact on velocity and quality, reporting to leadership. Strong Go/Rust and Python experience, plus communication skills, are valued.