Manager, Developer Relations Engineering

Responsibilities

• Lead Tailscale’s Developer Relations Engineering team and roadmap, translating company, product, and developer priorities into a focused set of technical projects and programs.
• Manage and develop a high-performing team of Developer Relations Engineers.
• Set clear expectations, give team members meaningful technical ownership, provide strong coaching and feedback, and help both senior and developing talent increase their impact.
• Lead the team in building high-quality technical experiences including integrations, example applications, open-source projects, demos, workshops, reference architectures, tutorials, and other developer tooling that helps developers quickly understand what they can build with Tailscale.
• Identify and personally contribute to high-leverage technical projects. This is a player-coach role: you should be comfortable opening an IDE, building a prototype, reviewing code, debugging an integration, or creating a working demo alongside the team.
• Serve as a visible technical voice for Tailscale through hands-on work such as videos, presentations, demos, integrations, workshops, and community engagement.
• Ensure DevRel eng work is technically accurate, engaging, relevant to its intended audience, and aligned with current product positioning
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Growth, Content, Sales, and Customer Success to coordinate launches, educational initiatives, and developer feedback. Influence product strategy by identifying developer workflows and ecosystem opportunities where Tailscale can create differentiated value, and work with…
• Act as the senior DevRel partner for major launches and strategic bets.
• Define, track, and regularly report on DevRel eng performance, including audience growth, engagement, product activation, integration adoption, and contribution to the self-serve funnel

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