Developer Relations Engineer

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £100.3k - £111.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🤝 Developer Relations (DevRel)

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Tailscale

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

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 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, privileged access management, and future products • Write code, investigate technical issues, and turn findings into developer resources • Build demos, documentation, talks, blog posts, sample applications, workshops, videos, tools, and open source contributions • Speak at conferences and investigate APIs, GitHub issues, and networking edge cases • Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, marketing, support, community, and other technical stakeholders • Drive high-impact projects from idea through execution • Manage multiple workstreams and meet publishing, event, and launch deadlines • Travel for events, conferences, and community activities

🎯 Requirements

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and demonstrated experience building, debugging, and shipping real projects through professional work, open source, self-directed learning, or ambitious personal projects • Ability to create developer-facing code samples, demos, tutorials, documentation, blog posts, videos, talks, and workshops • Deep curiosity about networking, infrastructure, security, identity, cloud, open source, AI, or developer tooling • Track record of building and explaining technical systems, including 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 • Comfort working publicly 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 technical stakeholders while operating independently • Ability to manage multiple workstreams, meet publishing, event, or launch deadlines, discuss technical tradeoffs, and travel for events and conferences • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity incentive plan • Variable commission for quota-based roles • Health, vision, and dental coverage with no waiting period for employees and families • Flexible remote-first work environment • Virtual and in-person social events • Corporate co-working program • Employer-funded retirement contributions matching employee contributions dollar-for-dollar, up to 0.75% of eligible compensation annually • Annual company retreat and team off-sites • $1,500 USD annually for professional development • Mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities • Flexible paid time off • 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 • Accessible and inclusive hiring process with accommodations available

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