Software Engineer, Strategic Projects

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About the Role Join our Strategic Projects team, reporting to the team's Engineering Manager and ultimately into our co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer. This team exists to show developers and organizations why Tailscale should be their default connectivity substrate, both for internal infrastructure and for embedding into customer-facing products. Aperture, our identity-aware LLM gateway, is one such initiative. This is an AI-native team. We use coding agents heavily as a force multiplier and expect every engineer to be a power user. Our customers demand a high bar on code quality, security, and operational rigour, and we treat that as a reason to use every tool available, including LLMs and coding agents, to ship fast without compromising it.…

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