Remote Frontend Architect for Secure Web Console

Tailscale; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 163,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first company culture

Professional development stipend $1500

Retirement contributions matching up

Company retreat and in-person events

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Tailscale is hiring a full-time Frontend Engineer to own the technical direction and architecture of our next-generation web console. You will build frontend infrastructure that supports multiple products in a unified experience, with focus on identity, authentication, and secure cross-origin integrations.

Join a fully remote company that values collaboration across engineering, design, growth, and infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Deep experience building and operating production React applications at scale.
• Strong understanding of web platform fundamentals: HTTP, browser security, cookies, CORS, CSRF.
• Experience building internal platforms/frameworks that enable other teams to ship with guardrails.
• Experience driving a unified console across disparate frontend codebases.
• Strong judgment in frontend architecture: standardize vs abstract, scalable systems.
• Experience designing scalable frontend testing strategies.
• Comfort collaborating across design, growth, infrastructure, and tooling.
• Strong written and verbal communication and ability to influence direction across teams.
• High ownership and autonomy, able to lead through ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive frontend architecture for the next-generation console.
• Design and maintain cross-origin authentication and session infrastructure.
• Build and operate a frontend platform hosting multiple products under a unified workflow.
• Establish shared infrastructure and patterns for cohesive console platform.
• Create architecture patterns and tooling enabling non-frontend engineers to build UI safely.
• Partner with Product Design to translate complex concepts into intuitive UX.
• Collaborate across teams on experiments, analytics, and feature rollout.
• Define and improve frontend testing strategy across the console.
• Improve local development, build pipelines, and release ergonomics with infra teams.
• Raise quality through leadership, mentoring, and guardrails.
• Participate in on-call rotation to triage incidents.

Skills

React

Frontend architecture

Web security fundamentals

Cross-origin/auth flows

Platform engineering mindset

Frontend testing

Collaborative communication

Ownership and autonomy

Tools

Design systems

Component libraries

Job description

Tailscale is hiring a full-time Frontend Engineer to own the technical direction and architecture of our next-generation web console. You will build frontend infrastructure that supports multiple products in a unified experience, with focus on identity, authentication, and secure cross-origin integrations.

Join a fully remote company that values collaboration across engineering, design, growth, and infrastructure.