Remote Documentation Platform Engineer

Tailscale; United States; Remote; USD 163,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first environment

Competitive compensation package

Professional development stipend

Paid time off

Build-your-own home office setup

Job summary

Tailscale is seeking an experienced full-stack Documentation Platform Engineer to evolve our documentation site into a platform that delivers an exceptional experience for customers and contributors.

You will build, maintain, and support the platform and tooling used by internal teams and external contributors to showcase Tailscale's features, pipelines, API docs, and search. You’ll influence how documentation is created, published, and consumed at scale for millions of visitors monthly.

Qualifications

• Experience building and maintaining documentation sites with Hugo, Docusaurus, NextJS, Astro, or similar.
• Experience with a docs-as-code publication workflow and impact on adoption and growth.
• Proficiency in modern HTML/CSS and implementing designs.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated content workflows.
• Understanding of LLMs as tools for development and content consumption.

Responsibilities

• Continuously improve and evolve the documentation site to be helpful, delightful, and educational for homelabbers, developers, and enterprises.
• Maintain and expand docs-as-code tooling and content publishing pipelines for internal and external contributors.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering and product teams to integrate documentation with the Tailscale platform.
• Partner with designers, user research, and growth teams to implement designs from experimentation to production.
• Shape and tune a modern search and discovery infrastructure for quick answers.
• Work with open source contributors through GitHub discussions, issues, and PRs.
• Monitor the platform's performance and maintain scalability for millions of visitors per month.
• Stay ahead of documentation trends through research, experimentation, and measurement.

Skills

Docs platforms

Docs-as-code

HTML & CSS

CI/CD

LLMs in dev

Tools

GitHub

Job description

Tailscale is seeking an experienced full-stack Documentation Platform Engineer to evolve our documentation site into a platform that delivers an exceptional experience for customers and contributors.

You will build, maintain, and support the platform and tooling used by internal teams and external contributors to showcase Tailscale's features, pipelines, API docs, and search. You’ll influence how documentation is created, published, and consumed at scale for millions of visitors monthly.