Tailscale
Software Engineer, AI Enablement
$129K–$179K
Remote (United Kingdom) +3 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Jul 24, 2026
- Location
- Remote (United Kingdom)
Canada
United Kingdom
United States - Experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
About the job
Build the tools, workflows, and practices that help Tailscale teams use AI-assisted development effectively and safely.
What you'll do
- Develop the internal AI-enablement roadmap with engineering leadership and technical staff, and work with the team building Aperture by Tailscale.
- Build and evaluate tools and workflows for coding agents; establish safe-use guardrails, review practices, and documentation.
- Identify AI opportunities across teams, support adoption, and measure the impact of AI tooling on velocity and quality.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Daily, hands-on fluency with modern AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Pi, or similar.
- Experience building and shipping internal tools or developer-facing automation.
- Strong written and verbal communication and advocacy skills.
Nice to have
- Experience in developer experience, platform engineering, or internal tooling; evaluating or benchmarking LLMs and coding agents.
- Experience with Go or Rust in addition to Python; security or code-review background; developer advocacy or technical project management experience.
Pay
£128,770 — £178,540 GBP (base salary)
Tools
Claude Code, Codex, Pi, Go, Rust, Python
AI focus
Enable engineering teams to adopt AI-assisted development: build coding-agent tools and workflows, evaluate models and tools, establish safe-use practices, and measure adoption and impact.
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