Frontend Engineer

Tailscale is building a new Internet security product. We are seeking a Frontend Engineer to own the technical direction of our next-generation web console, focusing on frontend architecture, authentication, and platform capabilities. The role is fully remote and involves collaboration across teams.

• Define and drive the frontend architecture for Tailscale’s next-generation console, including application structure, routing, state boundaries, shared abstractions, and long-term maintainability
• Design and maintain cross-origin authentication and session infrastructure between the console and other services, including auth flows, CORS policies, CSRF protections, cookie/session strategies, and support for multiple deployment environments
• Build and operate a frontend serving platform capable of hosting multiple Tailscale products under a unified development workflow
• Establish shared infrastructure, conventions, and design patterns that consolidate distinct product experiences into a cohesive console platform
• Create frontend architecture patterns, tooling, and abstractions that enable non-frontend engineers to build accessible, production-quality UI safely and efficiently
• Partner closely with Product Design to turn complex infrastructure and identity concepts into intuitive user experiences
• Collaborate with Growth, Design, Product, and other engineering teams on experimentation and iteration, including A/B testing, analytics instrumentation, and feature rollout strategies
• Define and improve frontend testing strategy across the console, including integration testing, end-to-end coverage, local developer ergonomics, and abstractions that reduce testing complexity for product teams
• Work with infrastructure and engineering tooling teams to improve local development workflows, build pipelines, preview deployments, release ergonomics, and operational reliability
• Raise the quality bar for frontend engineering across Tailscale through technical leadership, reviews, mentoring, and clear platform guardrails
• Required participation in our on-call rotation every few weeks, to triage and mitigate incidents

• 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
• Comfort collaborating across disciplines and functions, especially with design, growth, infrastructure, and developer tooling
• Strong written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain tradeoffs and influence technical direction across teams
• A high degree of ownership and autonomy, with the ability to identify important problems and drive them through ambiguity

• An inclusive, flexible environment where you can be your authentic self
• A competitive total compensation package including base salary, equity incentive plan and variable commission
• Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period for health, vision, dental, and more
• Remote first company with virtual and in-person social events and co-working program
• Employer-funded retirement contributions with dollar-for-dollar match up to 0.75% of eligible compensation
• Connect with other Tailscalars IRL at annual company retreat, team off-sites, and in-person collaboration
• Support for personal and professional development with $1500 USD annually for professional development, mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities
• Paid time off and a healthy work-life integration with flexible paid time off program
• A build-your-own home office setup with company-owned laptop, monthly home internet reimbursement, and $500 USD for workstation customization
• Paid parental leave program with 20 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents