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Simple, secure networks for teams of any scale. Built on WireGuard.

Software Engineer, Strategic Projects

Full-stack EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteSeniorTeam 51-200Since 2020H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

3 days ago

Salary

$163K - $226K / year

Seniority

Senior

Bachelor DegreeEnglishOpen SourceGo

Job Description

Software Engineer, Strategic Projects

Tailscale

• 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.

Job Requirements

  • Strong at rapid prototyping, explaining technical concepts, and working directly with customers in an exploratory, fast-paced environment.
  • Go experience is a must; comfort integrating third-party APIs; basic networking.
  • Heavy daily use of coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) and LLMs in your engineering workflow, with a point of view on where they accelerate work, where they fail, and how to wrap them in review and security practices that hold the production bar.
  • Comfort with the cadence of a strategy team at an early-ish startup: priorities shift with market signal, prototype-to-production timelines are short, and the bar on what ships stays high regardless.
  • Thrive working independently in a remote environment.

Benefits

  • An inclusive, flexible environment where you can be your authentic self.
  • A competitive total compensation package.
  • Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period.
  • Remote first company—most of our teams work fully remotely.
  • Connect with other Tailscalars IRL.
  • Support for your personal and professional development.
  • Paid time off and a healthy work-life integration.
  • A build-your-own home office setup.
  • Generous parental leave program from your first day.

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