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Front End Engineer

Tailscale · Remote (United States) · Remote

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About Tailscale

The connectivity platform for devs, IT, and security teams. Zero Trust identity-based access that deploys in minutes and scales to every resource. Start free. Backed by Accel, Insight and CRV.

About the role

We’re seeking a skilled and diligent full-time Frontend Engineer to join our growing team. You will work as part of our team to: Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 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
More about this role

Thank you for considering Tailscale. If this job description resonates with you, please apply. Frequently cited statistics show that people who identify with historically marginalized groups are likely to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to help us break that statistic!

Tailscale is making safe connection effortless by delivering software that makes it easy to securely interconnect people and their devices, no matter where they are. From hobbyists to multinational corporations, teams of every size use Tailscale each day to protect their networks, share access to internal tools, and more. We're building a future for the Internet that's easy, sensible, and safe, like it used to be. Founded in 2019 and fully distributed, we're backed by Accel, CRV, Insight, Heavybit, and Uncork Capital.

We’re seeking a skilled and diligent full-time Frontend Engineer to join our growing team. You will work as part of our team to:

  • 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...

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