• You'll lead and develop a team of 4 to 6 software engineers, owning hiring, performance management, growth conversations, and team culture. • You'll set team goals, track progress against roadmap commitments, and ship high-quality software on time. • You'll partner with product and design to prioritize engineering work in alignment with business objectives. • You'll provide technical guidance, architectural oversight, and mentorship to engineers across the team. • You'll lead system design efforts focused on scalable, secure, and cloud-native software. • You'll oversee incident management, on-call rotations, and root cause analysis for production issues. • You'll champion engineering practices that support continuous integration, automated testing, and effective deployment. • You'll manage resource allocation, project tracking, and status reporting for engineering initiatives. • Use AI tools thoughtfully to work smarter, move faster, and free up time for the work that matters most. • Look for ways to improve how we work, and bring fresh ideas to the team. • Apply sound judgment when working with sensitive or regulated information, in line with our data governance guidelines. • Share what's working — new tools, workflows, productivity wins — so the whole team gets stronger.

• Build prototypes and POCs that showcase Tailscale for AI agents and tooling. • Work with reference customers to integrate Tailscale, both for internal adoption and for embedding into their products. • Create reference architectures and share your work through documentation, open source, community engagement, and conference presentations. • Rapidly iterate with input from colleagues and reference customers. • Hold the production bar on prototypes that often graduate into Tailscale's product surface area. • Light travel required (~10-15%).

• Build prototypes and POCs that showcase Tailscale for AI agents and tooling (MCP gateways, LLM proxies, sandboxes, remote servers, and similar emerging workloads). • Work with reference 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, open source, community engagement, and conference presentations. • Rapidly iterate with input from colleagues and reference customers; turn customer conversations into shippable prototypes and reference designs. • Hold the production bar on prototypes that often graduate into Tailscale's product surface area, including the security and review practices that wrap around agent-generated code. • Light travel required (~10-15%): primarily team and company onsites, with occasional conferences or customer visits concentrated in North America with potential trips to EU or APAC.

• Own systems end-to-end: Build and extend scalable backend systems powering core product workflows using TypeScript, Java, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker, and Terraform. • Build product-facing features: Develop intuitive front-end experiences using React and TypeScript that simplify complex government workflows. • Contribute to architecture and technical direction: Help shape decisions across services, infrastructure, and data models as we scale, and grow your scope of ownership over time. • Ship product end-to-end: Work directly with teammates and customers to design and deliver impactful features. • Improve performance and reliability: Identify bottlenecks, reduce technical debt, and continuously improve system scalability and maintainability. • Raise the engineering bar: Write clean, well-tested code and contribute to a strong engineering culture built around ownership and accountability.