engineering
Posted 1 weeks agoFrontend Engineer
at Tailscale
United StatesRemote
$1500
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction and architecture of Tailscale’s next-generation web console
- Build frontend infrastructure and platform capabilities that enable multiple Tailscale products to ship within a unified console experience
- Define and drive the frontend architecture for Tailscale’s next-generation console, including application structure, routing, state boundaries, shared abstractions, and long-term maintainability
- Build and operate a frontend serving platform capable of hosting multiple Tailscale products under a unified development workflow
- Establish shared infrastructure, conventions, and design patterns that consolidate distinct product experiences into a cohesive console platform
- Create frontend architecture patterns, tooling, and abstractions that enable non-frontend engineers to build accessible, production-quality UI safely and efficiently
- Collaborate with Growth, Design, Product, and other engineering teams on experimentation and iteration, including A/B testing, analytics instrumentation, and feature rollout strategies
- Define and improve frontend testing strategy across the console, including integration testing, end-to-end coverage, local developer ergonomics, and abstractions that reduce testing complexity for product teams
- Raise the quality bar for frontend engineering across Tailscale through technical leadership, reviews, mentoring, and clear platform guardrails
- Grow your career thoughtfully with $1500 USD annually for professional development, or take advantage of mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities.
Requirements
- The ability to think strategically, make pragmatic architecture decisions, collaborate across engineering, design, growth, and infrastructure, and help other teams build with confidence is essential. Key Responsibilities
- Required participation in our on-call rotation every few weeks, to triage and mitigate incidents What We Are Looking For Deep
- Experience building internal platforms, frameworks, or shared libraries that enable other teams to ship products with strong guardrails •
- Experience designing scalable frontend testing strategies that improve confidence while hiding incidental complexity from product engineers
- Strong written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain tradeoffs and influence technical direction across teams
- A high degree of ownership and autonomy, with the ability to identify important problems and drive them through ambiguity Nice to Have •
- Experience designing frontend codebases and tooling optimized for AI-assisted development, including conventions and abstractions that help LLM-based agents produce correct, consistent UI with fewer iterations •
- Experience with design systems, component libraries, and connecting design tooling to production UI workflows •
- Experience with feature flagging, analytics, experimentation systems, and progressive delivery patterns •
- Experience working on identity, admin, B2B SaaS, or security-sensitive product surfaces
- Our hiring process uses AI-assisted tools to help screen and assess candidates. All hiring decisions are made by people.
Benefits
- Experience driving a unified console or platform vision across disparate frontend codebases
- As a company, we strive to maintain fair and equitable compensation practices within our team across all roles and all levels.
- Tailscale's compensation package includes base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits.
- The salary range displayed on each job posting represents the target range for a new hire's base salary.
- US Pay Range $181,000 — $226,000 USD
- A competitive total compensation package. This includes a base salary, an equity incentive plan and variable commission (for quota-based roles). Comprehensive group
- benefits with no waiting period. Take advantage of coverage for health, vision, dental, and more for you and your family!
- Employer-funded retirement contributions.
- Tailscale will match your retirement contributions dollar-for-dollar, up to a maximum annual employer contribution equal to 0.75% of your eligible compensation.
- Paid time off and a healthy work-life integration. Our flexible, paid time off program supports you for any situation life throws your way, whether moving homes or travelling the world!
- You choose your own company-owned laptop (Mac or PC), receive a monthly home internet reimbursement, and $500 USD to customize your workstation to make it your own.
- Paid parental leave program .
- We care about your life outside of work and encourage new parents to take advantage of parental leave top-ups (20 weeks for birthing parents, 16 weeks for non-birthing parents).
Contact
- Please be aware that legitimate emails from Tailscale's talent team will only originate from @tailscale.com, @greenhouse.io, and @interviews.modernloop.io email addresses.
- For more information about protecting yourself from impersonators and scams, please visit https://tailscale.com/scam-awareness .
Additional details
- Tailscale is building the new Internet by delivering software that makes it easy to securely interconnect people and their devices, no matter where they are.
- From hobbyists to multinational corporations, teams of every size use Tailscale each day to protect their networks, share access to internal tools, and more.
- We're building a future for the Internet that's easy, sensible, and safe, like it used to be.
- Founded in 2019 and fully distributed, we're backed by Accel, CRV, Insight, Heavybit, and Uncork Capital. Job Description
- Bring a special focus to identity-adjacent frontend systems, including authentication, session management, secure cross-origin integrations, and product surfaces that span multiple services
- Because we’re a fully remote company building a highly technical product, we’re looking for someone who can move fluidly between product engineering and platform engineering.
- This role sits at an important intersection of user experience, browser security, developer tooling, and internal platform design.
- Partner closely with Product Design to turn complex infrastructure and identity concepts into intuitive user experiences
- Work with infrastructure and engineering tooling teams to improve local development workflows, build pipelines, preview deployments, release ergonomics, and operational reliability
- experience building and operating production React applications at scale •