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
Join our Strategic Projects team, reporting to the team's Engineering Manager and ultimately into our co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer. This team exists to show developers and organizations why Tailscale should be their default connectivity substrate, both for internal infrastructure and for embedding into customer-facing products. Aperture, our identity-aware LLM gateway, is one such initiative.
What they're looking for
- Partner with product-minded engineers from the start, shaping prototypes (MCP gateways, LLM proxies, sandboxes, remote servers, and similar emerging workloads) so the path to production is built in, not bolted on
- Co-own the journey from "works in a demo" to "stable in production": hardening, error handling, observability, and operational tooling
- Own the production bar on prototypes that graduate into Tailscale's product surface area, including the security and review practices that wrap around agent-generated code
- Find and close the long-tail gaps, edge cases, regressions, flaky behavior, missing tests, undocumented operational knowledge, that separate a prototype from a dependable product
- Establish and maintain the review, testing, and security practices that let the team ship agent-generated code fast without compromising the production bar
- Light travel required (
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.
Join our Strategic Projects team, reporting to the team's Engineering Manager and ultimately into our co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer. This team exists to show developers and organizations why Tailscale should be their default connectivity substrate, both for internal infrastructure and for embedding into customer-facing products. Aperture, our...
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