Jobs at Tailscale

Design and implement security controls across cloud, OS, Kubernetes, networks, and CI/CD. Audit infrastructure, perform threat modeling, remediate vulnerabilities, and write software for security features and defenses.

Serve as a technical, customer-facing engineer for strategic enterprise customers: lead onboarding, provide hands-on configuration and troubleshooting, run QBRs, drive adoption and expansion, relay customer feedback to product/engineering, and produce technical documentation to enable self-service and long-term success.

Design and implement security and privacy features across Tailscale's codebase. Audit features for vulnerabilities, perform threat modeling and security analysis, drive mitigations to resolution, and spend significant time writing secure software (50%+ coding). Collaborate with engineering teams to promote secure coding and provide guidance and training.

Design and implement security controls across cloud, OS, Kubernetes, networks, and CI/CD. Audit infrastructure for vulnerabilities, perform threat modeling, drive mitigations, and spend significant time writing security-focused software and automation.

Create technical, growth-focused educational content (tutorials, implementation guides, demos, comparisons) that drives discoverability and product adoption. Work with product, engineering, and marketing to build hands-on examples, optimize content for search and AI discovery, refresh existing assets, and measure impact against quarterly growth metrics.

Design and implement security and privacy improvements across Tailscales codebase. Audit features for vulnerabilities, perform threat modeling and security analysis, drive remediation, and spend at least half your time writing code to build security features, defenses, and tooling.

Create technically accurate, growth-focused educational content (tutorials, guides, demos, comparisons) that helps enterprise and developer audiences discover, evaluate, and adopt Tailscale. Monitor communities and search signals, collaborate with product and engineering, optimize existing content, and build an AI-first program to drive self-serve revenue and product adoption.

Serve as the technical lead for strategic customers: onboard, train, troubleshoot, and drive adoption of Tailscale. Build relationships, conduct QBRs, recommend best practices, escalate product feedback, and maintain customer-facing documentation to enable long-term success and expansion.

Execute and QA campaign operations: build landing pages and emails, manage a 500,000+ newsletter, coordinate webinars, maintain marketing automation and CRM workflows, pull basic performance reports, and document repeatable processes to scale marketing execution.

Execute and QA marketing campaigns: build landing pages and emails, manage a 500k+ newsletter, coordinate webinars, maintain marketing automation/CRM workflows, pull performance reports, and document repeatable processes to scale operations.

Own frontend architecture and platform for a unified web console. Build identity-adjacent systems (auth, sessions, CORS/CSRF protections), shared infra and tooling, testing strategies, and enable other teams to ship reliable UIs. Collaborate across design, growth, and infrastructure; participate in on-call rotation.

Build and maintain internal engineering services and automation to support product teams. Improve observability, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and cloud-managed services. Own running services, participate in incident response, collaborate cross-functionally, and drive reliability, scalability, and efficiency improvements.

Design, build, and maintain internal infrastructure and shared engineering services. Improve observability, CI/CD, and automation, operate cloud-managed services and VMs, participate in incident response, and collaborate with product and customer-facing teams to enable data-driven decisions and scalable systems.

Lead frontend architecture and platform work for a unified web console: design app structure, cross-origin auth and session infrastructure, shared UI/platform abstractions, testing strategy, developer workflows, and tooling. Collaborate with product, design, growth, and infrastructure teams, provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call rotation.

Build and maintain internal shared engineering services: improve observability, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code; operate cloud-managed services and VMs; collaborate cross-functionally, own projects end-to-end, participate in incident response, and improve system scalability and stability.

Drive technical success with channel partners by leading discovery, architecture, demos, and POCs for partner-sourced and co-sell deals. Enable partners via training, blueprints, and scalable assets, advise on zero-trust, identity integrations, cloud/hybrid deployments, and collaborate cross-functionally to grow partner-sourced revenue.

Serve as the primary technical counterpart for channel partners, leading discovery, architecture, demos, and POCs. Enable partners with training, reference architectures, and playbooks; co-sell with AEs and Channel AMs; architect multi-party deals; provide product feedback; and drive partner-sourced revenue while maintaining high-trust technical relationships.

Provide high-touch executive support to the VP of Engineering: manage complex calendars, meetings, travel, and communications; coordinate cross-functional initiatives and projects; prepare briefings and presentations; track decisions and action items; improve operational processes and systems; partner with CTO Chief of Staff and other leaders to drive organizational effectiveness in a distributed, fast-moving engineering organization.

Partner with the VP of Engineering to maximize effectiveness by managing calendars, meetings, travel, communications, and cross-functional coordination. Own executive operations, prepare briefing materials and presentations, track actions and dependencies, coordinate offsites and events, and improve administrative systems. Work closely with leaders across Engineering, Product, Design, Finance, Legal, People, Marketing, and the CTO Chief of Staff to ensure timely execution and continuous improvement in a distributed, remote-first environment.

Build and lead Tailscale's EMEA sales organization: define regional strategy, hire and coach sales teams, drive enterprise and partner-led growth, own pipeline/forecasting, and personally lead strategic opportunities and executive relationships across the region.