Developer Relations Engineer — Remote, Build & Share Tech

Tailscale; United States; Remote; CAD 170,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first environment

Competitive compensation package

Paid time off

Professional development stipend

Home-office setup stipend

Job summary

Tailscale is looking for a Developer Relations Engineer to own and improve the developer experience across our expanding product portfolio. You’ll help developers understand, adopt, extend, and build with our core VPN/connectivity product, and shape this experience as we expand into new areas like secure AI access and PAM.

You’re a builder, investigator, and storyteller who writes code, creates demos and docs, and shares learnings via blogs, talks, sample apps, workshops, and open source

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals demonstrated via real projects.
• Ability to create clear developer-facing materials (docs, samples, talks).
• Curiosity about systems across networking, infra, security, cloud, AI.
• Experience building and explaining technical systems and tools.
• Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve the developer experience across products.
• Create demos, docs, tutorials, blog posts, talks, and sample apps.
• Speak at conferences and engage with technical communities.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with eng, product, marketing, support.

Skills

Software engineering

Developer-facing content

Documentation skills

Public speaking

Cross-functional collaboration

Open source experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE or equivalent

Tools

GitHub

APIs

Open source workflows

Go

Networking

VPNs/WireGuard

Job description

Tailscale is looking for a Developer Relations Engineer to own and improve the developer experience across our expanding product portfolio. You’ll help developers understand, adopt, extend, and build with our core VPN/connectivity product, and shape this experience as we expand into new areas like secure AI access and PAM.

You’re a builder, investigator, and storyteller who writes code, creates demos and docs, and shares learnings via blogs, talks, sample apps, workshops, and open source