Frontend Engineer

🕒 June 18

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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 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 • Bring a special focus to identity-adjacent frontend systems, including authentication, session management, secure cross-origin integrations, and product surfaces that span multiple services • Define and drive the frontend architecture for Tailscale’s next-generation console, including application structure, routing, state boundaries, shared abstractions, and long-term maintainability • Design and maintain cross-origin authentication and session infrastructure between the console and other services, including auth flows, CORS policies, CSRF protections, cookie/session strategies, and support for multiple deployment environments • 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 • Partner closely with Product Design to turn complex infrastructure and identity concepts into intuitive user experiences • 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 • Work with infrastructure and engineering tooling teams to improve local development workflows, build pipelines, preview deployments, release ergonomics, and operational reliability • Raise the quality bar for frontend engineering across Tailscale through technical leadership, reviews, mentoring, and clear platform guardrails • Required participation in our on-call rotation every few weeks, to triage and mitigate incidents

🎯 Requirements

• Deep experience building and operating production React applications at scale • Strong understanding of web platform fundamentals, including HTTP semantics, browser security boundaries, authentication flows, cookies, storage, CORS, and CSRF • Experience building internal platforms, frameworks, or shared libraries that enable other teams to ship products with strong guardrails • Experience driving a unified console or platform vision across disparate frontend codebases • Strong judgment around frontend architecture: knowing when to standardize, when to abstract, and how to keep systems understandable as they grow • Experience designing scalable frontend testing strategies that improve confidence while hiding incidental complexity from product engineers • Comfort collaborating across disciplines and functions, especially with design, growth, infrastructure, and developer tooling • 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. • 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 (Nice to Have)

🏖️ 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. • 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.