Front End Engineer

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 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.