Tailscale - Product Manager, Tailscale-Native Apps
Requirements
• 6+ years in product management, or a software engineering background moving into product, with real time spent on a developer-facing product: an SDK, API, CLI, library, or developer tool • You've shipped developer-facing features that developers used in production, and lived with the consequences of your design choices — naming, defaults, error behavior, versioning • You can read Go and/or Rust and hold a credible technical conversation about API and SDK design • You have taste in developer experience: opinions about API ergonomics, docs, error messages, and getting-started flows, with examples to back them up • You do customer research the way developer products require it — reading GitHub issues, lurking in Discord, running office hours, and finding the pattern in the noise • You turn ambiguous scope into shipped increments, close the loop after launch, and keep teams informed along the way • Hands-on Go or Rust experience — you've built something real, even as a side project • Time at a developer platform company with a strong SDK motion (e.g. Stripe, Twilio, Auth0, Vercel, Supabase, HashiCorp) • Open-source community experience: contributor experience, issue triage, balancing commercial priorities with community needs • Enough networking, zero-trust, or VPN familiarity to understand what embedding Tailscale does for a developer • Experience designing CLIs or scripting surfaces for platform and SRE teams • Public technical writing, talks, OSS contributions, or developer-tooling side projects • LLMs and coding agents as part of your daily product workflow • As a company, we strive to maintain fair and equitable compensation practices within our team across all roles and all levels. Tailscale's compensation package includes base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits. The salary range displayed on each job posting represents the target range for a new hire's base salary. Individual offers may vary based on experience and skill set. • $156,000—$195,000 USD • Frequently cited statistics show that people who identify with historically marginalized groups are likely to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to help us break that statistic! • We encourage you to help us break that statistic!
Responsibilities
• Own the roadmap for the native apps experience: TSNet, tailscale-rs, and the tailscale CLI • Define what "Tailscale-native application" means — the reference architectures, golden paths, and embedding patterns, packaged as docs, examples, and sample apps developers can build from • Own the developer experience end to end: the on-ramp from blog post to running embedded node, API ergonomics, error messages, docs that work, examples that compile, and upgrade paths that don't burn early adopters • Set the Rust SDK family strategy: which TSNet capabilities to port, which to skip, in what order, and how to position the library to developers. • Treat the CLI as a product in its own right: scripting ergonomics, output conventions, automation surfaces, and the experience for platform and SRE teams running tailscale in CI and infrastructure-as-code • Run the internal dogfood loop. Aperture and Tailscale PAM are built on these primitives; make those teams your most demanding customers and turn their friction into roadmap. • Partner with GTM and Customer Success on embedding deals — AI platforms, developer tools, and infrastructure software shipping Tailscale inside their products — and let what you learn set priorities • Engage developers where they live (GitHub issues, Discord, office hours) and build a coherent picture of what embedded developers need
Benefits
• An inclusive, flexible environment where you can be your authentic self. We recognize the impact of diverse voices and backgrounds on the growth of our people, product, and company. And that flexibility in how and when you work empowers our team to integrate work and life. • An inclusive, flexible environment where you can be your authentic self. • A competitive total compensation package. This includes a base salary, an equity incentive plan and variable commission (for quota-based roles). • A competitive total compensation package. • Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period. Take advantage of coverage for health, vision, dental, and more for you and your family! • Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period. • Remote first company—most of our teams work fully remotely. Enjoy a change of scenery wherever you can get wifi, participate in virtual and in-person social events, and leverage our corporate co-working program to visit WeWork (or other similar spaces near you). Some roles require in-office collaboration depending on team needs, which will be clearly noted in the job description. • Remote first company • Employer-funded retirement contributions. Tailscale will match your retirement contributions dollar-for-dollar, up to a maximum annual employer contribution equal to 0.75% of your eligible compensation. • Employer-funded retirement contributions. • Support for your personal and professional development. Grow your career thoughtfully with $1500 USD annually for professional development, or take advantage of mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities. • Support for your personal and professional development. • Paid time off and a healthy work-life integration. Our flexible, paid time off program supports you for any situation life throws your way, whether moving homes or travelling the world! • Paid time off and a healthy work-life integration. • A build-your-own home office setup. You choose your own company-owned laptop (Mac or PC), receive a monthly home internet reimbursement, and $500 USD to customize your workstation to make it your own. • A build-your-own home office setup. • Paid parental leave program. We care about your life outside of work and encourage new parents to take advantage of parental leave top-ups (20 weeks for birthing parents, 16 weeks for non-birthing parents). • Paid parental leave program • Tailscale is committed to providing an accessible and inclusive hiring process. If you require an accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process or related to any aspect of this role, please contact your recruiter. • Our hiring process uses AI-assisted tools to help screen and assess candidates. All hiring decisions are made by people. • Please be aware that legitimate emails from Tailscale's talent team will only originate from @tailscale.com, @greenhouse.io, and @interviews.modernloop.io email addresses. For more information about protecting yourself from impersonators and scams, please visit https://tailscale.com/scam-awareness.
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