Frontend Engineer

Tailscale

Frontend Engineer responsible for Tailscale's next-generation web console development. Collaborate on a secure, user-friendly platform for interconnecting people and devices.

Posted 6/18/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $181,000 - $226,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

React

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the technical direction and architecture of Tailscale’s next-generation web console
Build frontend infrastructure and platform capabilities that enable multiple Tailscale products to ship within a unified console experience
Bring a special focus to identity-adjacent frontend systems, including authentication, session management, secure cross-origin integrations
Define and drive the frontend architecture for Tailscale’s next-generation console
Design and maintain cross-origin authentication and session infrastructure between the console and other services
Build and operate a frontend serving platform capable of hosting multiple Tailscale products
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
Define and improve frontend testing strategy across the console
Work with infrastructure and engineering tooling teams to improve local development workflows
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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off
Professional development opportunities
Remote first company
Company retreat and off-sites
Parental leave program
Build-your-own home office setup

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Hard Skills & Tools

Reactfrontend architectureauthenticationsession managementcross-origin integrationsfrontend testing strategiesproduction applicationsweb platform fundamentalsCORSCSRF

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcollaborationcommunicationjudgmentownershipautonomymentoringproblem identificationinfluenceiteration