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Front End Engineer in USA 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 supporting multiple products in a unified console.
  • Design and maintain cross-origin authentication, session infrastructure, auth flows, CORS policies, CSRF protections, cookies, and deployment-environment support.
  • Build a frontend serving platform and shared conventions, abstractions, and design patterns for multiple product teams.
  • Create tooling and architecture patterns that enable non-frontend engineers to build accessible, production-quality UI.
  • Partner with Product Design and collaborate with Growth, Product, infrastructure, developer tooling, and engineering teams.
  • Define and improve frontend testing strategy, including integration testing, end-to-end coverage, and local developer ergonomics.
  • Improve local development workflows, build pipelines, preview deployments, release ergonomics, and operational reliability.
  • Provide technical leadership through reviews, mentoring, and frontend platform guardrails.
  • 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 with strong guardrails.
  • Experience driving a unified console or platform vision across disparate frontend codebases.
  • Strong judgment in frontend architecture, standardization, abstraction, and maintainability.
  • Experience designing scalable frontend testing strategies.
  • Ability to collaborate across design, growth, infrastructure, and developer tooling functions.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including explaining tradeoffs and influencing technical direction.
  • High ownership and autonomy, with the ability to identify important problems and drive them through ambiguity.
  • Preferred experience with frontend codebases and tooling optimized for AI-assisted development.
  • Preferred experience with design systems, component libraries, design tooling, feature flagging, analytics, experimentation, progressive delivery, identity, admin, B2B SaaS, or security-sensitive product surfaces.

Benefits

  • Fully remote, flexible work environment with virtual and in-person social events and a corporate coworking program.
  • Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and other group benefits with no waiting period.
  • Equity incentive plan and variable commission for quota-based roles.
  • Employer-funded retirement contributions matching employee contributions up to the stated annual limit.
  • Annual company retreat, team off-sites, and support for distributed in-person collaboration.
  • $1500 USD annually for professional development, plus mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities.
  • Flexible paid time off program.
  • Company-owned laptop choice of Mac or PC, monthly home internet reimbursement, and a home-office setup allowance.
  • Paid parental leave top-ups of 20 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents.

Salary: $163k - $204k/yr

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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