About this role

Tailscale is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead their dataplane platform, responsible for the critical layer that carries customer traffic and ensures fast, secure, and reliable connectivity. This role involves driving open-source and commercial technologies across the Tailscale client, DERP, and various networking components. The ideal candidate will set the vision and roadmap for the dataplane, define performance requirements, and own the end-to-end connectivity product strategy.

What we are looking for

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Set vision and roadmap for the Tailscale dataplane
Define performance and reliability as customer-facing product requirements
Own connectivity product strategy end to end
Drive roadmap for operational primitives like subnet routers and exit nodes
Own application-layer connectivity surface
Own the operator control surface for network engineers and IT admins

Skills mentioned

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Kubernetes