Tailscale
Software Engineer, Strategic Projects
$163K–$226K
Remote (United States) +2 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Aug 5, 2026
- Location
- Remote (United States)
Canada
United States - Experience
- Experience taking software from prototype to production in startup-like environments; no number of years specified.
About the job
Takes experimental connectivity and AI-related prototypes from concept to reliable production products, including customer integrations and production practices for agent-generated code.
What you'll do
- Shape prototypes with product-minded engineers and harden them for production, including reliability, observability, testing, and operational tooling.
- Own security, review, and testing practices for prototypes that become part of Tailscale’s product, including code generated with agents.
- Work with reference customers on Tailscale integrations and close production gaps such as edge cases, regressions, and missing operational documentation.
What they ask for
- Go experience; comfort integrating third-party APIs; basic networking.
- Heavy daily use of coding agents and LLMs in engineering workflows, with a perspective on their strengths, limitations, and production safeguards.
- Strong ability to harden, stabilize, and maintain production software.
- Comfort working independently in a remote environment and collaborating with technical customers.
Nice to have
- Experience operating production services, including observability, on-call, incident response, performance, or reliability work.
- Experience validating prototype code with security teams, building LLM applications, or working with identity infrastructure.
Pay
$163,000 — $226,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Go, Claude Code, Cursor, LLMs, MCP, OAuth, OIDC, SAML
AI focus
Uses coding agents and LLMs heavily in engineering; builds and productionizes emerging AI connectivity workloads, including LLM gateways and proxies, and establishes safeguards for agent-generated code.
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