Developer Relations Engineer (Fully Remote)

Tailscale; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Professional development budget

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Tailscale, a fully distributed company, seeks an energetic Developer Experience Engineer to own and improve developer experience across its growing product portfolio, including Aperture and PAM. You will help developers understand, adopt, extend, and build with our core VPN/connectivity product as well as new areas.

You will create demos, docs, talks, blog posts, sample apps, workshops, videos, and open source contributions to empower the community and internal teams.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and real project experience.
• Ability to create clear developer-facing tutorials and samples.
• Curiosity about networking, security, cloud, and developer tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve developer experience across Tailscale’s expanding product portfolio.
• Help developers understand, adopt, extend, and build with core VPN/connectivity product and new areas like Aperture and PAM.
• Build demos, docs, talks, blog posts, sample apps, workshops, videos, and open source contributions.

Skills

Engineering fundamentals

Developer materials

Systems curiosity

Tools

Go

WireGuard

VPNs

Cloud infra

Job description

• Own and improve developer experience across Tailscale’s expanding product portfolio.
• Help developers understand, adopt, extend, and build with core VPN/connectivity product and new areas like Aperture and PAM.
• Build demos, docs, talks, blog posts, sample apps, workshops, videos, and open source contributions.

Requirements:

• Strong software engineering fundamentals with demonstrated experience building and shipping real projects.
• Ability to create clear, useful developer-facing materials like code samples, tutorials, and videos.
• Deep curiosity about systems across networking, infrastructure, security, identity, cloud, open source, AI, or developer tooling.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Go, networking, VPNs, WireGuard, identity, access controls, infrastructure automation, or security products.
• Building developer education programs, sample apps, workshops, technical video content, or conference talks.
• Visible history of technical writing, talks, demos, open source contributions, or community work.

What We Offer:

• Inclusive, flexible environment with remote-first culture and coworking support.
• Competitive compensation including base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits with no waiting period.
• Paid parental leave (20 weeks birthing, 16 weeks non-birthing), flexible PTO, and professional development budget.

Tailscale

Tailscale makes secure networking effortless by enabling easy interconnection of devices anywhere. Founded in 2019, the fully distributed company is backed by top investors and fosters an inclusive, flexible culture.