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 hiring a Product Manager to own what it's like to build a Tailscale-native application — software with Tailscale connectivity and identity built in from the start. You'd own the original front door to that world: TSNet , the Go library that puts a Tailscale node inside an application in a few lines of code; tailscale-rs , our new Rust-based SDK family (including C++, Python, and Elixir); the tailscale CLI powering scripting, automation, and CI; and the core Tailscale client library.
What they're looking for
- 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
More about this role
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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 hiring a Product Manager to own what it's like to build a Tailscale-native application — software with Tailscale connectivity and identity built in from the start.
You'd own the original front door to that world: TSNet , the Go library that puts a Tailscale node inside an application in a few lines of code; tailscale-rs , our new Rust-based SDK family...
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