• Design, build, and evolve a low-friction internal developer platform • Lead major technical initiatives to improve developer velocity and autonomy • Partner with Infrastructure, Security, and Product Engineering to deliver secure and easy-to-adopt solutions • Drive adoption through experimentation and iterative improvements • Mature the Infrastructure team’s capabilities through automation • Coach team members to grow technical skills • Provide thought leadership on industry best practices • Turn complex problems into simple solutions

• Develop the Tailscale product, contributing to both open-source client code and related backend services, with an emphasis on networking features and optimizations • Take ownership of the entire product lifecycle, from writing code to product ideation and strategic decision-making • Work with UX/UI designers and product managers to shape features that enhance networking capabilities • Work as part of a team of engineers to design, build, test, and document core networking software components • Develop and optimize product features in areas such as our control plane, relay infrastructure, and networking protocols • Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve complex networking issues across different environments • Exhibit ownership over the running services that comprise Tailscale’s product by building for observability, participating in incident response, and fielding customer support escalations • Analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability, and stability of networking systems and resources • Bring a security-first mindset to both design and implementation, ensuring robust and secure networking components

• Develop the Tailscale product, contributing to client code and backend services • Take ownership of the entire product lifecycle, from writing code to product ideation and strategic decision-making • Work closely with UX/UI designers and product managers to shape features • Create and measure experiments to understand customer engagement and find growth patterns • Bring impact to our growth metrics through both light weight experimentation as well as larger product initiatives • Work closely with data to ensure the right metrics and visibility are available for experiments • Work closely with all of EPD to be an advocate for product lead growth best practices

• Build prototypes and POCs that showcase Tailscale for AI agents/tooling (MCP gateways, LLM proxies, remote servers, etc.) • Work with customers to integrate Tailscale—both for internal adoption (VPN replacement with identity-aware networking) and for embedding into their products to enable secure customer connectivity • Create reference architectures and share your work through documentation, community engagement, and presentations • Rapidly iterate with input from your colleagues and reference customers to incorporate feedback and build solutions that solve emerging, real-world problems