Front End Engineer

Responsibilities: — Define and drive the frontend architecture for Tailscale’s next-generation web console, including application structure, routing, state boundaries, shared abstractions, and long-term maintainability. — Design and maintain cross-origin authentication and session infrastructure between the console and other services, including auth flows, CORS policies, CSRF protections, cookie/session strategies, and support for multiple deployment environments. — Build and operate a frontend serving platform capable of hosting multiple Tailscale products under a unified development workflow. — Establish shared infrastructure, conventions, and design patterns that consolidate distinct product experiences into a cohesive console platform. — Create frontend architecture patterns, tooling, and abstractions that enable non-frontend engineers to build accessible, production-quality UI safely and efficiently. — Partner closely with Product Design to turn complex infrastructure and identity concepts into intuitive user experiences. — Collaborate with Growth, Design, Product, and other engineering teams on experimentation and iteration, including A/B testing, analytics instrumentation, and feature rollout strategies. — Define and improve frontend testing strategy across the console, including integration testing, end-to-end coverage, local developer ergonomics, and abstractions that reduce testing complexity for product teams. — Work with infrastructure and engineering tooling teams to improve local development workflows, build pipelines, preview deployments, release ergonomics, and operational reliability. — Raise the quality bar for frontend engineering across Tailscale through technical leadership, reviews, mentoring, and clear platform guardrails. — Required participation in on-call rotation every x weeks to triage and mitigate incidents. Requirements: — Deep experience building and operating production React applications at scale. — Strong understanding of web platform fundamentals, including 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 products with strong guardrails. — Experience driving a unified console or platform vision across disparate frontend codebases. — Strong judgment around frontend architecture: knowing when to standardize, when to abstract, and how to keep systems understandable as they grow. — Experience designing scalable frontend testing strategies that improve confidence while hiding incidental complexity from product engineers. — Comfort collaborating across disciplines and functions, especially with design, growth, infrastructure, and developer tooling. — Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain tradeoffs and influence technical direction across teams. — A high degree of ownership and autonomy, with the ability to identify important problems and drive them through ambiguity. Benefits: — Inclusive, flexible environment supporting authenticity. — Competitive total compensation package including base salary, equity, and variable commission (for quota-based roles). — Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period covering health, vision, dental, and more for employees and their families. — Remote-first company with opportunities for virtual and in-person social events and corporate co-working programs. — Employer-funded retirement contributions matching employee contributions up to 0.75% of eligible compensation. — Annual company retreats and team off-sites across multiple countries. — Support for personal and professional development with $1500 USD annually for professional growth, mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities. — Flexible paid time off program. — Company-provided home office setup including choice of laptop, monthly internet reimbursement, and $500 USD customization budget. — Paid parental leave program with top-ups. — Commitment to accessible and inclusive hiring process with accommodations available. Salary range: $218,420 - $273,360 CAD per year. Note: This is a fully remote position based in Canada.