Developer Relations Engineer

🔥 12 hours ago

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $170.2k - $188.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🤝 Developer Relations (DevRel)

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Tailscale

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2020

☁️ SaaS

🔐 Security

📡 Telecommunications

💰 $100M Series B on 2022-05

SaaS • Security • Telecommunications

Tailscale is a company that provides a modern VPN solution founded on WireGuard technology, simplifying networking by creating secure, software-defined networks that connect users, services, and devices with ease. By eliminating the complexities of legacy VPNs, Tailscale offers secure remote access, site-to-site networking, and multi-cloud networking, all while ensuring user-friendly, quick deployment without complex configurations. Recognized for enabling zero-trust environments and seamless workflows, Tailscale supports robust security features such as automated user onboarding, encryption, and access control lists (ACLs). This tool is particularly popular for both enterprise and personal use, praised for its integration capabilities and ease of use, making secure networking accessible anywhere, regardless of infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Own and improve the developer experience across Tailscale’s expanding product portfolio • Help developers understand, adopt, extend, and build with Tailscale’s core VPN/connectivity product • Shape developer experience for new product areas including secure AI access (Aperture) and privileged access management (PAM) • Write code and investigate technical issues, APIs, GitHub issues, and networking edge cases • Create developer resources including demos, documentation, talks, blog posts, sample applications, workshops, videos, tools, and open source contributions • Present at conferences and other technical events • Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, marketing, support, and community teams • Drive high-impact projects independently from idea to execution • Manage multiple workstreams and meet publishing, event, and launch deadlines • Travel for events, conferences, and community activities

🎯 Requirements

• Strong software engineering fundamentals, with demonstrated experience building, debugging, and shipping real projects through professional work, open source, self-directed learning, or ambitious personal projects • Ability to create clear, useful developer-facing materials, including code samples, demos, tutorials, docs, blog posts, videos, talks, and workshops • Deep curiosity about systems, especially networking, infrastructure, security, identity, cloud, open source, AI, or developer tooling • Track record of building and explaining technical systems, such as production software, developer tools, infrastructure projects, homelabs, local AI setups, networking experiments, or open source contributions • Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills • Experience presenting to technical audiences through conferences, meetups, livestreams, workshops, podcasts, videos, or internal engineering forums • Comfortable working in public through GitHub issues, pull requests, community forums, social channels, open source projects, and developer feedback loops • Strong developer empathy, emotional intelligence, and product sense • Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, product, marketing, support, community, and other technical stakeholders while operating independently • Comfortable managing multiple workstreams, meeting publishing, event, or launch deadlines, discussing technical tradeoffs, and traveling for events and conferences • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience • Comfortable discussing what was built, why it was built, what broke, lessons learned, and future improvements

🏖️ Benefits

• An inclusive, flexible environment where you can be your authentic self • Competitive total compensation package including a base salary and equity incentive plan • Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period, including health, vision, and dental coverage for you and your family • Remote-first work environment with flexible work arrangements • Virtual and in-person social events • Corporate co-working program • Employer-funded retirement contributions matching employee contributions dollar-for-dollar, up to a maximum annual employer contribution equal to 0.75% of eligible compensation • Annual company retreat and team off-sites • $1500 USD annually for professional development • Mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities • Flexible paid time off program • Company-owned laptop (Mac or PC) • Monthly home internet reimbursement • $500 USD workstation customization allowance • Paid parental leave top-ups: 20 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents

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