Developer Relations Engineer — Remote & Open Source Advocate

Tailscale; United States; Remote; USD 127,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first company

Competitive compensation package

Professional development budget

Paid time off

Job summary

Tailscale is seeking a Developer Relations Engineer to own and improve the developer experience across its expanding product portfolio. You will help developers understand, adopt, extend, and build with our core VPN/connectivity product, while shaping experience as we expand into new areas like secure AI access and PAM.

You are a builder, investigator, and storyteller who writes code, creates demos and docs, and shares knowledge through talks, blog posts, sample apps, workshops, and open source

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals demonstrated through professional work, open source, or ambitious personal projects.
• Ability to create clear developer-facing materials (code samples, demos, docs, blogs, talks, videos).
• Deep curiosity about how systems work across networking, infrastructure, security, identity, cloud, AI, or developer tooling.
• Track record of building and explaining technical systems (production software, developer tools, homelabs, local AI).
• Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills for technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve the developer experience across Tailscale’s expanding product portfolio.
• Help developers understand, adopt, extend, and build with our core VPN/connectivity product.
• Produce demos, docs, talks, blog posts, sample apps, workshops, videos, tools, and open source contributions.
• Explain complex technical ideas clearly and practically.
• Engage with conferences, meetups, livestreams, and internal forums.

Skills

Software fundamentals

Developer-facing materials

Systems curiosity

Experience explaining technicals

Technical communication

Public speaking

GitHub/public collaboration

Empathy and product sense

Cross-functional collaboration

Multi-stream management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/EE or equivalent

Tools

Go

Networking

WireGuard

Job description

Tailscale is seeking a Developer Relations Engineer to own and improve the developer experience across its expanding product portfolio. You will help developers understand, adopt, extend, and build with our core VPN/connectivity product, while shaping experience as we expand into new areas like secure AI access and PAM.

You are a builder, investigator, and storyteller who writes code, creates demos and docs, and shares knowledge through talks, blog posts, sample apps, workshops, and open source