Production-Grade AI Engineer - Strategic Projects

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Tailscale is seeking an experienced engineer for our Strategic Projects team. You will help turn prototypes into dependable products with a strong focus on production-grade security, observability, and maintainability.

This role requires deep Go experience and extensive use of coding agents and LLMs to accelerate development while preserving quality. You will collaborate closely with product-minded engineers and reference customers to ensure reliable integrations across internal and

Qualifications

• Strong at hardening, stabilizing, and maintaining production software; you take satisfaction in detail-oriented work and in closing the long tail of bugs, edge cases, and operational gaps.
• Go experience is a must; comfort integrating third-party APIs; basic networking.
• Heavy daily use of coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) and LLMs in your engineering workflow, with a point of view on where they accelerate work and how to wrap them in quality practices.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product-minded engineers from the start, shaping prototypes so the path to production is built in.
• Co-own the journey from demo to production: hardening, error handling, observability, and operational tooling.
• Own the production bar on prototypes that graduate into Tailscale's product surface area and ensure security and review practices wrap around agent-generated code.
• Work with reference customers to integrate Tailscale, focusing on reliability, maintainability, and long-term supportability.
• Find and close long-tail gaps, edge cases, regressions, flaky behavior, missing tests, and undocumented knowledge.
• Establish and maintain the review, testing, and security practices that let the team ship agent-generated code fast without compromising the production bar.
• Light travel required (<10%): travel to team onsite events or conferences in North America.

Skills

Go

Python

Rust

TypeScript

LLM tooling

Job description

Tailscale is seeking an experienced engineer for our Strategic Projects team. You will help turn prototypes into dependable products with a strong focus on production-grade security, observability, and maintainability.

This role requires deep Go experience and extensive use of coding agents and LLMs to accelerate development while preserving quality. You will collaborate closely with product-minded engineers and reference customers to ensure reliable integrations across internal and