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About Tailscale

Tailscale is making safe connection effortless by delivering software that makes it easy to securely interconnect people and their devices, no matter where they are. From hobbyists to multinational corporations, teams of every size use Tailscale each day to protect their networks, share access to internal tools, and more. We're building a future for the Internet that's easy, sensible, and safe, like it used to be. Founded in 2019 and fully distributed, we're backed by Accel, CRV, Insight, Heavybit, and Uncork Capital.

About the Role

We are seeking a Product Manager to own Tailscale's networking features — the layer that decides how traffic finds its destination by name on top of Tailscale’s seamless mesh connectivity solution. Concretely, you will own four feature sets: App Connectors, DNS, Funnel, and Tailscale Serve & Services.

A tailnet gives every device an identity and an address. Networking features are what turn addresses into something a person, a script, or an AI agent can actually use — a name, a service, an app, a URL.

• App Connectors route traffic to specific SaaS and private applications by name, so access follows the app rather than the IP.
• DNS — MagicDNS, split DNS, custom name servers, search domains
• Tailscale Serve & Services make a workload — not a machine — the unit of connectivity and access: addressable, load-balanced, and durable across the instances behind it. This is the wedge that lets customers replace a service registry, and eventually much of what they use a service mesh for, with Tailscale.
• Funnel is Tailscale's ingress story: securely exposing a Service running inside the tailnet to the public internet, from a hobbyist sharing a dev server to production webhooks and public endpoints.

This is the most user-visible role in Tailscale's Dataplane Platform, and the work is as much product design as it is networking. DNS settings, connector topologies, and service definitions are configured by network engineers and IT admins in the admin console, API, and CLI, and the distance between "magical" and "unusable" is the object model, the defaults, and the error messages.

See How Tailscale Works, Tailscale Funnel, and Four ways to Tailscale a service to learn more.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Tailscale's networking features: App Connectors, DNS, Funnel, and Tailscale Services
• Own the operator experience across these surfaces: how network engineers and IT admins configure, segment, monitor, and troubleshoot them at scale, in both the admin console and the CLI
• Partner with GTM, Customer Success, and Solutions Engineering on production commitments and strategic deals, and champion the migration path from reverse proxies, bastion hosts, cloud ingress, and service meshes to Tailscale
• Build systematic customer insight across the full spread of Tailscale users, from a homelab