About the role

Role Overview

Frontend Engineer at Tailscale (fully remote; US-based). You’ll help define and build the next-generation web console and shared frontend infrastructure for multiple Tailscale products, with a special focus on identity-adjacent frontend systems.

Responsibilities

Own the frontend architecture for the next-generation console (app structure, routing, state boundaries, shared abstractions, maintainability)
Design and maintain cross-origin authentication and session infrastructure (auth flows, CORS, CSRF protections, cookie/session strategy, multi-environment support)
Build and operate a frontend serving platform to host multiple products under a unified development workflow
Establish shared infrastructure, conventions, and design patterns that unify distinct product experiences
Create frontend patterns/tooling that help non-frontend engineers ship accessible, production-quality UI safely
Partner with Product Design to translate complex identity/infrastructure concepts into intuitive UX
Collaborate across teams (Growth, Design, Product, Engineering) on experimentation and iteration (including A/B testing, analytics instrumentation, feature rollouts)
Define/improve the frontend testing strategy (integration, end-to-end, dev ergonomics, abstractions to reduce testing complexity)
Improve local development workflows and pipelines (preview deployments, release ergonomics, operational reliability)
Raise the frontend engineering quality bar via technical leadership, reviews, mentoring, and platform guardrails
Participate in an on-call rotation every few weeks to triage and mitigate incidents

Requirements

Deep experience building and operating production React applications at scale
Strong web platform fundamentals: HTTP semantics, browser security boundaries, authentication flows, cookies/storage, CORS, CSRF
Experience building internal platforms/frameworks/shared libraries enabling other teams to ship with strong guardrails
Ability to drive a unified console/platform vision across disparate codebases
Strong judgment in frontend architecture

Nice-to-haves (implied by focus)

Experience with authentication/session integration across multiple services
Experience improving developer tooling and preview/release workflows
Experience with analytics instrumentation and experimentation tooling

About Tailscale

Tailscale builds software that securely interconnects people and their devices, helping teams protect networks and share access to internal tools. It is a fully distributed company founded in 2019 and used by hobbyists through multinational corporations.