Tailscale currently has 2 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Engineering Manager, Strategic Projects (2). Most positions are in Engineering.
Tailscale's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (100%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Job postings at Tailscale most frequently mention: Testing Practices, System Design, Open Source Contribution, Market & Technology Trend Analysis, Machine Learning.
In the past 30 days, Tailscale has posted 0 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer, Strategic Projects Software Engineer on a Strategic Projects team focused on demonstrating Tailscale's value for AI infrastructure and agentic tooling. The role involves building prototypes, working with customers on integrations, and creating external artifacts. The team heavily utilizes AI and coding agents, with a strong emphasis on code quality, security, and rapid iteration. Requires Go experience and comfort with AI tools in the engineering workflow. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Strategic Projects Software Engineer on the Strategic Projects team, focusing on building prototypes and POCs for AI infrastructure and agentic tooling, integrating Tailscale with LLM gateways and customer-facing AI products. The role involves heavy use of coding agents and LLMs, customer integration, and producing external artifacts, with a fast shipping cadence and high bar for code quality and security. | Agent | 7 |
| Engineering Manager, Strategic Projects Engineering Manager for a strategic projects team focused on AI-native initiatives, including an identity-aware LLM gateway and heavy use of coding agents. The role involves mentoring senior engineers, partnering with leadership and customers to build and ship prototypes and reference architectures, and setting standards for AI tool usage in development. | Agent | 7 |
| Engineering Manager, Strategic Projects Engineering Manager for a strategic projects team focused on AI-native initiatives, including an identity-aware LLM gateway and heavy use of coding agents. The role involves managing senior engineers, partnering with leadership and customers to develop prototypes and reference architectures, and setting standards for AI tool usage in development. | Agent | 7 |
| Developer Relations Engineer Developer Relations Engineer at Tailscale, focusing on improving the developer experience for their core VPN/connectivity product and expanding into new areas like secure AI access. The role involves building demos, sample apps, technical content, representing the company at events, and working cross-functionally. Requires strong software engineering background, excellent communication skills, and a deep curiosity about systems, including local AI models. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Product Strategy Software Engineer on the Product Strategy team, focusing on building prototypes and POCs for AI agents and tooling, integrating Tailscale for AI use cases, and working with customers on solutions. Requires Go experience and comfort building tools on top of LLMs. | Agent | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Product Strategy Software Engineer on the Product Strategy team, focusing on building prototypes and POCs for AI agents/tooling, integrating Tailscale with customers for AI workloads, and creating reference architectures. Requires Go experience and comfort building tools on top of LLMs. | Agent | 5 |
| Solutions Engineer - Commercial (New Business) Solutions Engineer for Tailscale, a company building secure network interconnectivity software. This role partners with Sales to drive new business for Commercial customers, focusing on technical discovery, architecture design, and acting as a trusted advisor. It requires deep networking and security expertise, with a specific mention of understanding AI gateway and governance platforms for LLM access. | — | 5 |
| Backend Engineer, Identity Backend Engineer focused on identity and access management features for Tailscale, a secure networking product. Responsibilities include developing core software components, identity services, sign-on functionality (SSO, OAuth2, SAML, WebAuthn), SCIM capabilities, and ensuring service observability, security, scalability, and resilience. Requires participation in on-call rotation and a security-first mindset. | — | 0 |
| Backend Engineer, Identity Backend Engineer focused on identity and access management features for Tailscale, a secure interconnection product. Responsibilities include developing core software components, identity services, sign-on functionality (SSO, OAuth2, SAML, WebAuthn), SCIM capabilities, and ensuring service observability, security, and stability. Requires participation in on-call rotation. | — | 0 |
| Frontend Engineer Frontend Engineer at Tailscale, a company building secure interconnectivity software. The role focuses on owning the technical direction and architecture of the next-generation web console, building frontend infrastructure, and focusing on identity-adjacent systems. This involves defining frontend architecture, designing authentication and session infrastructure, building a serving platform, establishing conventions, creating patterns and tooling, partnering with design, collaborating with other teams, defining testing strategy, improving local development workflows, and raising the quality bar for frontend engineering. The role requires experience with React, web platform fundamentals, and building internal platforms. Nice-to-haves include experience with AI-assisted development tooling, design systems, and identity/B2B SaaS products. | — | 0 |
| Frontend Engineer Frontend Engineer role focused on building the next-generation web console for Tailscale, emphasizing identity-adjacent systems, authentication, and cross-origin integrations. The role involves owning technical direction, building frontend infrastructure, and enabling multiple products within a unified console experience. It requires a strong understanding of web platform fundamentals, browser security, and experience building internal platforms. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Networking (Features) Software Engineer focused on networking features and optimizations for the Tailscale product, involving backend services, product ideation, and ensuring security and stability of distributed systems. Requires strong Go, distributed systems, and OS-level networking knowledge. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Networking (Features) Software Engineer focused on developing and optimizing core networking features and backend services for the Tailscale product, with an emphasis on product lifecycle ownership, system design, and security. | — | 0 |
| Solutions Engineer (Singapore) - Commercial Solutions Engineer for Tailscale in APAC, focusing on commercial expansion. Responsibilities include partnering with sales, leading technical engagements, conducting workshops and POCs, and contributing to product development by writing code and developing integrations for strategic customers. The role also involves gathering field insights to inform product and GTM strategies and building reusable technical assets. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Networking (Edge) Software Engineer focused on designing, building, and maintaining Tailscale's global networking infrastructure, including Funnel and DERP relay services. Responsibilities involve ensuring scalability, high availability, performance, and security, as well as providing architectural guidance and troubleshooting customer networking issues. The role also contributes to open-source client code and the product's network dataplane. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Networking (Edge) Software Engineer role focused on designing, building, and maintaining Tailscale's global Funnel and DERP relay infrastructure, emphasizing network engineering, SRE/DevOps, and customer support for connectivity issues. The role involves contributing to open-source client code and the product dataplane, with a strong focus on security and performance. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Networking (Dataplane) Software Engineer role focused on the core client connectivity features of Tailscale, involving network engineering, software development, and ensuring scalability, performance, and security of networking modules. Requires expertise in networking protocols, Go or similar languages, and distributed systems. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Networking (Dataplane) Software Engineer role focused on the core client connectivity features of Tailscale, involving network engineering, software development, and ensuring scalability, performance, and security of networking modules. Requires expertise in networking protocols, Go or similar languages, and distributed systems. | — | 0 |
| Team Lead, Customer Support This role is for a Team Lead, Customer Support in Singapore to establish and lead APAC support operations. The role involves managing a team of 8-10 Support Engineers, ensuring world-class service, and providing follow-the-sun coverage. It requires a technical expert passionate about networking problems and mentoring. | — | 0 |
| Mobile Platform Developer Software Engineer to join the Tailscale engineering team, focusing on developing the Tailscale product, contributing to client code (Swift, Kotlin, Go) and backend services, with a special emphasis on mobile platforms (iOS and Android). | — | 0 |
| Mobile Platform Developer Software Engineer to join the engineering team to develop the Tailscale product, contributing to client code and backend services. The client code is a mix of modern Swift, Kotlin and Go. Prior Go expertise is not a requirement. Bring a special focus on our mobile platforms, iOS and Android, while contributing to common code that supports macOS, Windows and other core client platforms. | — | 0 |
| Infrastructure Engineer Software Engineer to join Tailscale's growing team, focusing on shared engineering services and functionalities to support internal business units. The role involves building tools, processes, and owning projects end-to-end, with responsibilities including designing, building, testing, and documenting core software components, ensuring observability, participating in incident response, and improving system efficiency, scalability, and stability. | — | 0 |
| Technical Writer Tailscale is seeking a Technical Writer to create and deliver high-quality product documentation, tutorials, and guides for networking and security professionals and software engineers. The role involves collaborating with subject-matter experts, product managers, and the community to ensure accurate and accessible content, with a focus on docs-as-code workflows and improving information architecture. Experience with networking, security concepts, Git, and Markdown is required. | — | 0 |
| Go Core Client Engineer This role is for a Go Core Client Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and operating the Go-based shared client code that powers Tailscale's product. The engineer will work on core client subsystems like connection management, NAT traversal, and encrypted transport, shipping end-to-end features and improving reliability, performance, and observability. | — | 0 |
| Go Core Client Engineer This role is for a Go Core Client Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and operating the Go-based shared client code that powers Tailscale's product. The engineer will work on core client subsystems like connection management, NAT traversal, and encrypted transport, focusing on shipping end-to-end features and improving reliability, performance, and observability. | — | 0 |
| Implementation Engineer This role focuses on the technical onboarding of customers to Tailscale, ensuring they achieve value quickly. It involves guiding customers through configurations, integrating with identity providers, defining policies, and acting as a feedback loop to product and engineering teams. The role requires strong networking fundamentals and a customer-facing technical background. | — | 0 |
| Implementation Engineer Tailscale is seeking an Implementation Engineer to manage the technical onboarding journey for customers, ensuring they achieve value with the product within 30 days. This role involves guiding customers through configurations like IdP integration and ACL policy definition, acting as a feedback loop to Product and Engineering, and maintaining data hygiene in sales and CSP tooling. The ideal candidate has 2-4+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical role, strong networking fundamentals, and proficiency in software installation and troubleshooting. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Engineering Tooling Software Engineer to join the engineering tooling team, focusing on building and improving shared engineering services, developer tooling, CI/CD, and observability to support internal business units and increase engineering productivity. The role involves end-to-end project ownership, stakeholder collaboration, and incident response. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Engineering Tooling Software Engineer to join the engineering tooling team, supporting internal business units with shared services and functionalities. The role involves building and improving developer tools, CI/CD, and leveraging production data for issue surfacing and business decisions. Responsibilities include designing, building, testing, and documenting software components, ensuring observability, participating in incident response, and analyzing system efficiency. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Engineering Tooling Software Engineer to join the engineering tooling team, focusing on building and improving shared engineering services and functionalities for internal business units. This role involves understanding stakeholder needs, owning projects end-to-end, and enhancing developer productivity through tooling, CI/CD, and observability. | — | 0 |
| Backend Engineer, Control Plane Backend Engineer role focused on developing core software components for Tailscale's control plane, including relay infrastructure and identity integrations. Responsibilities include full product lifecycle ownership, building for observability, incident response, and maintaining a security-first mindset. Requires experience with distributed systems and Go. | — | 0 |
| Backend Engineer, Control Plane Backend Engineer role focused on developing core software components for Tailscale's control plane, including relay infrastructure and identity integrations. Responsibilities include full product lifecycle ownership, building for observability, incident response, and maintaining a security-first mindset. Requires experience with distributed systems and Go. | — | 0 |
| Security Infrastructure Engineer Software engineer specializing in security and infrastructure to grow the product security team. Responsibilities include designing and building security controls, improving security properties, auditing infrastructure, and supporting engineering decisions with threat modeling and security analysis. Requires expertise in cloud security, container security, internet/web security fundamentals, and proficiency in Go and IaC tooling. Prior experience in a safety-related technical role is also required. | — | 0 |
| Security Infrastructure Engineer Software engineer specializing in security and infrastructure to grow the product security team. Responsibilities include designing and building security controls, improving security properties, auditing infrastructure, and supporting engineering decisions with threat modeling and security analysis. Requires expertise in cloud platform security, container security, and internet/web security fundamentals, with proficiency in Go and IaC tooling. Experience in safety-related technical roles is a plus. | — | 0 |
| Security Software Engineer Seeking a software engineer specializing in security and privacy to improve the security properties of Tailscale by identifying and implementing security and privacy features, bug fixes, and defense-in-depth. The role involves auditing features for weaknesses, providing mitigations, and supporting engineering decisions with threat modeling and security analysis. The engineer will spend at least 50% of their time writing software. | — | 0 |
| Security Software Engineer Software engineer specializing in security and privacy to improve the security properties of Tailscale by identifying opportunities for security and privacy features, bug fixes, and defense-in-depth, and implementing them across the codebase. Auditing features for technical security weaknesses, identifying mitigations or solutions, and driving them towards resolution. Supporting engineering decisions with threat modeling and security analysis and expertise. Spending at least 50% of time writing software. | — | 0 |
| Analytics Engineer, Data Analytics Engineer at Tailscale, focusing on building and maintaining data models and pipelines for financial, operational, product, and GTM analytics. The role involves partnering with various teams to understand data needs, transforming complex user problems into scalable data solutions, and ensuring data quality and documentation. | — | 0 |
| Analytics Engineer, Data Analytics Engineer at Tailscale, a fully distributed company building secure interconnectivity software. The role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining scalable dbt models and data pipelines for financial, operational, product, and GTM analytics. Requires strong SQL, modern data modeling, and the ability to translate user needs into reliable data solutions. The role emphasizes ownership, automation, data quality, and collaboration across various teams. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Networking Software Engineer role focused on designing, building, and maintaining Tailscale's global networking infrastructure, including Funnel and DERP relay services. Requires strong networking, software development, and SRE/DevOps skills, with a focus on scalability, high availability, and security. Experience with Go is highly desired. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Networking Software Engineer role focused on designing, building, and maintaining Tailscale's global Funnel and DERP relay infrastructure, emphasizing network engineering, SRE/DevOps, and distributed systems. The role involves ensuring scalability, high availability, performance, and security of hosted services, as well as troubleshooting customer network issues and contributing to open-source client code and the product dataplane. Experience with Go is highly desired. | — | 0 |
| Infrastructure Engineer This role is for an Infrastructure Engineer at Tailscale, a company building secure interconnectivity software. The engineer will support internal business units by building shared engineering services and functionalities, owning projects end-to-end, and working with customer-facing teams. Key responsibilities include designing, building, testing, and documenting core software components, ensuring observability and incident response for running services, and improving system efficiency, scalability, and stability. The role requires experience with CI/CD, secrets management, infrastructure as code, observability, and distributed systems, with a preference for Go and Kubernetes experience. The company offers a competitive compensation package including base salary, equity, and benefits, with a US pay range of $163,000—$204,000 USD. | — | 0 |
| Infrastructure Engineer Infrastructure Engineer role at Tailscale, a company building secure network interconnection software. The role focuses on supporting internal business units through shared engineering services, building tools and processes, and working with stakeholders to meet their needs. Responsibilities include designing, building, testing, and documenting core software components, owning running services with a focus on observability and incident response, and analyzing system efficiency and stability. Requires experience with CI/CD, secrets management, infrastructure as code, observability, distributed systems, and cloud environments. Familiarity with networks and Go is a plus. The role is remote and part of an early-stage company. | — | 0 |
| Technical Writer Technical Writer to create and deliver world-class product documentation, tutorials, and conceptual guides for networking and security professionals and software engineers using Tailscale's products. Requires strong technical writing experience, proficiency with networking/security concepts, and familiarity with docs-as-code workflows. | — | 0 |