Product Manager – Tailscale-Native Apps

🕒 July 31

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $177k - $221k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

✅ Product Manager

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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 roadmap for the native apps experience: TSNet, tailscale-rs, and the tailscale CLI • Define what "Tailscale-native application" means — the reference architectures, golden paths, and embedding patterns, packaged as docs, examples, and sample apps developers can build from • Own the developer experience end to end: the on-ramp from blog post to running embedded node, API ergonomics, error messages, docs that work, examples that compile, and upgrade paths that don't burn early adopters • Set the Rust SDK family strategy: which TSNet capabilities to port, which to skip, in what order, and how to position the library to developers. • Treat the CLI as a product in its own right: scripting ergonomics, output conventions, automation surfaces, and the experience for platform and SRE teams running tailscale in CI and infrastructure-as-code • Run the internal dogfood loop. Aperture and Tailscale PAM are built on these primitives; make those teams your most demanding customers and turn their friction into roadmap. • Partner with GTM and Customer Success on embedding deals — AI platforms, developer tools, and infrastructure software shipping Tailscale inside their products — and let what you learn set priorities • Engage developers where they live (GitHub issues, Discord, office hours) and build a coherent picture of what embedded developers need

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years in product management, or a software engineering background moving into product, with real time spent on a developer-facing product: an SDK, API, CLI, library, or developer tool • You've shipped developer-facing features that developers used in production, and lived with the consequences of your design choices — naming, defaults, error behavior, versioning • You can read Go and/or Rust and hold a credible technical conversation about API and SDK design • You have taste in developer experience: opinions about API ergonomics, docs, error messages, and getting-started flows, with examples to back them up • You do customer research the way developer products require it — reading GitHub issues, lurking in Discord, running office hours, and finding the pattern in the noise • You turn ambiguous scope into shipped increments, close the loop after launch, and keep teams informed along the way.

🏖️ 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. • Employer-funded retirement contributions. • 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. • Paid parental leave program.