Developer Relations Engineer

Job Description

Tailscale is looking for a Developer Relations Engineer to own and improve the developer experience across Tailscale’s expanding product portfolio. You’ll help developers understand, adopt, extend, and build with our core VPN/connectivity product, while also shaping how that experience evolves as Tailscale expands into new product areas like secure AI access (Aperture), privileged access management (Border0), and whatever comes next.

You’re a builder, investigator, and storyteller. You write code, chase technical curiosities all the way down, and turn what you learn into things other developers can use like demos, docs, talks, blog posts, sample apps, workshops, videos, tools, and open source contributions. You build things, break things, explain things, and keep going until the thing you’re working on has a name.

You’re comfortable speaking at conferences and just as comfortable digging through an API, a GitHub issue, or a weird networking edge case until it makes sense. You’re probably the kind of person who runs a local AI model in your homelab and can explain exactly why. You ask “why does it work that way?” often, and your instinct is to make the answer clearer, simpler, and better for the next developer.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain demos, sample apps, reference architectures, tutorials, and technical tools that help developers understand what they can do with Tailscale.
• Create technical content for developers, including blog posts, docs, videos, talks, workshops, livestreams, and conference sessions.
• Represent Tailscale at events, conferences, meetups, community moments, and developer-facing conversations.
• Work closely with engineering, product, marketing, support, and community teams to identify developer friction and turn that feedback into better product experiences.
• Help developers understand Tailscale’s core connectivity product, as well as newer product areas such as secure AI access, privileged access management, identity, infrastructure security, and developer tooling.
• Contribute to open source projects, examples, and integrations where it makes sense.
• Participate in public technical conversations through GitHub issues, pull requests, community forums, social channels, and other developer feedback loops.
• Help define what great developer experience looks like at Tailscale, from first touch to production usage.

What We Are Looking For

• Strong software engineering background, with demonstrable experience building, debugging, and shipping real projects.
• Ability to write clear, useful code samples, demos, tutorials, and technical content for developer audiences.
• Deep curiosity about how systems work, especially across networking, infrastructure, security, identity, cloud, open source, or developer tooling.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical ideas clearly and creatively.
• Experience speaking to technical audiences, whether through conferences, meetups, livestreams, workshops, podcasts, videos, or internal engineering.