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Front End Engineer in Canada new

  • Tailscale
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Remote

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical direction and architecture of Tailscale’s next-generation web console.
  • Build frontend infrastructure and platform capabilities for hosting multiple products in a unified console and development workflow.
  • Design and maintain cross-origin authentication, session management, CORS policies, CSRF protections, cookie/session strategies, and multi-environment support.
  • Establish shared frontend infrastructure, conventions, design patterns, tooling, and abstractions for product teams.
  • Partner with Product Design and collaborate with Growth, Product, infrastructure, developer tooling, and engineering teams.
  • Define and improve frontend integration and end-to-end testing strategy and developer ergonomics.
  • Improve local development workflows, build pipelines, preview deployments, release processes, and operational reliability.
  • Provide technical leadership through reviews, mentoring, platform guardrails, and architecture decisions.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation to triage and mitigate incidents.

Requirements

  • Deep experience building and operating production React applications at scale.
  • Strong understanding of 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 with strong guardrails.
  • Experience driving a unified console or platform vision across disparate frontend codebases.
  • Strong judgment in frontend architecture, standardization, abstraction, and long-term maintainability.
  • Experience designing scalable frontend testing strategies that improve confidence while reducing incidental complexity.
  • Ability to collaborate across design, growth, infrastructure, developer tooling, product, and engineering functions.
  • Strong written and verbal communication and the ability to explain tradeoffs and influence technical direction.
  • High ownership, autonomy, and ability to identify and drive important problems through ambiguity.
  • Preferred experience with AI-assisted frontend development, design systems, component libraries, design-to-production workflows, feature flagging, analytics, experimentation, progressive delivery, identity, admin systems, B2B SaaS, or security-sensitive products.

Benefits

  • Fully remote-first work environment with flexible work practices and a corporate co-working program.
  • Base salary, equity incentive plan, and variable commission for quota-based roles.
  • Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and other group benefits with no waiting period.
  • Employer retirement contributions matching employee contributions dollar-for-dollar up to 0.75% of eligible compensation.
  • Annual company retreat, team off-sites, and support for intentional in-person collaboration.
  • $1,500 USD annually for professional development plus mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities.
  • Flexible paid time off program.
  • Company-owned laptop choice, monthly home internet reimbursement, and $500 USD for home-office customization.
  • Paid parental leave top-ups of 20 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents.

Tailscale

Tailscale builds a zero config VPN service that makes it easy for teams to securely interconnect their devices and users, regardless of their location. It focuses on simplifying network security and enhancing connectivity, providing minimal latency and seamless integration with existing services....

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