Developer Relations Engineer
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TailscaleNetworking VPN Security
Location: Remote (United States)Full-TimeMiddle
Salary143,000 - 179,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- GitNetworkingSoftware Engineering
Requirements
- 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 forums.
- Comfortable working in public via GitHub issues, pull requests, community forums, social channels, open source projects, and developer feedback loops.
- Strong developer empathy, emotional intelligence, and product sense.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, product, marketing, support, community, and other technical stakeholders.
- Comfortable operating independently, choosing high-impact projects, and following them through from idea to execution.
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams and meet regular publishing, event, or launch deadlines.
- Comfortable presenting on stage and on camera to developer audiences.
- Willingness to travel for events, conferences, and community moments.
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.
- 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.
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