Front End Engineer
Tailscale · Remote (United States)
About this role
**Front End Engineer — Tailscale** Thank you for considering Tailscale. If this job description resonates with you, please apply. --- ## About Tailscale Tailscale makes safe connection effortless by delivering software that makes it easy to securely interconnect people and their devices—no matter where they are. Teams use Tailscale to protect their networks, share access to internal tools, and more. Founded in 2019 and fully distributed, backed by Accel, CRV, Insight, Heavybit, and Uncork Capital. --- ## About the Role We’re seeking a skilled, diligent **full-time Frontend Engineer** to join our growing team. You’ll work with the team to: - **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 - Focus on **identity-adjacent frontend systems**, including authentication, session management, secure cross-origin integrations, and product surfaces spanning multiple services Because we’re fully remote and building a highly technical product, you’ll need to move fluidly between **product engineering** and **platform engineering**—at the intersection of **user experience, browser security, developer tooling, and internal platform design**. --- ## Key Responsibilities - Define and drive the **frontend architecture** for the next-generation console (application structure, routing, state boundaries, shared abstractions, maintainability) - Design and maintain **cross-origin authentication and session infrastructure** (auth flows, CORS, CSRF protections, cookie/session strategies, multiple deployment environments) - Build and operate a **frontend serving platform** to host multiple Tailscale products under a unified development workflow - Establish **shared infrastructure, conventions, and design patterns** to consolidate product experiences into a cohesive console platform - Create **frontend architecture patterns, tooling, and abstractions** so non-frontend engineers can build accessible, production-quality UI safely and efficiently - Partner with **Product Design** to turn complex identity/infrastructure concepts into intuitive user experiences - Collaborate with **Growth, Design, Product, and engineering** on experimentation and iteration (A/B testing, analytics instrumentation, feature rollout strategies) - Define and improve **frontend testing strategy** (integration testing, end-to-end coverage, local developer ergonomics, abstractions to reduce testing complexity) - Improve **local development workflows, build pipelines, preview deployments, release ergonomics, and operational reliability** with infrastructure/tooling teams - Raise the **quality bar** through technical leadership, reviews, mentoring, and platform guardrails - Participate in **on-call rotation every x weeks** to triage and mitigate incidents --- ## What We Are Looking For - Deep experience building and operating **production React applications at scale** - Strong understanding of web platform fundamentals: **HTTP semantics, browser security boundaries, authentication flows, cookies, storage, CORS, CSRF** - Experience building **internal platforms/frameworks/shared libraries** that help other teams ship with strong guardrails - Experience driving a **unified console/platform vision** across disparate frontend codebases - Strong judgment around **frontend architecture** (when to standar
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