Documentation Platform Engineer
Core
Build, maintain, and evolve a customer-facing documentation platform and tools for internal teams and external contributors to showcase Tailscale's products.
Role type
Senior full-stack Documentation Platform Engineer
Builds
Documentation site, content pipelines, API documentation, and search infrastructure
Domain
Developer tools / Documentation platforms
Required skills
TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Python, shell scripting, Git, HTML, CSS, static site generators (Hugo, Docusaurus, NextJS, Astro), CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, LLM integration
Preferred skills
Open source engagement, multi-format content output (HTML, JSON, XML, Markdown, PDF, ePub)
Responsibilities
Evolve documentation site for user experience; maintain docs-as-code tooling and publishing pipelines; integrate documentation with platform; partner with designers and growth teams; tune search and discovery infrastructure; manage open source contributor interactions; monitor platform performance and scalability
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
