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Series CCanada388 people
10 of 53 roles
All teams53Marketing4Sales17Operations2Engineering10Office of the CEO4People & Talent4Customer Support3Customer Success2Strategic Projects5Data2
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Roles are read from Tailscale’s Greenhouse every hour and disappear here as soon as they close there.
Tailscale hiring insights
Counted from every role read from its board, compared with every startup listed on firsthires.live.
Key findings
- Tailscale has the 64th most open roles of 2,947 startups hiring on firsthires.live.
- 53 open roles is 3.1× the average Series C startup here (17.2).
- 51% of openings are in Engineering, then Sales (21%).
- Most roles are mid level (70%). 4 roles suit graduates or interns.
- With a team of about 388, these openings would grow headcount by up to 14%.
- Median posted pay of $180k is 3% above the Series C startup median ($175k).
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- Engineering pay here (median $184k) is in line with the market median for Engineering ($183k).
- 89% of its roles post pay, against 42% across all listed startups.
- 85% of its roles are fully remote (market: 23%).
- 100% of postings mention equity.
- 53 roles added in the last 30 days; 0 closed in the last 90.
- A typical open listing here is 56 days old, against 2 months across the site.
Hiring momentum
Momentum scoreToo little data
50 is flat. Blends the 4-week change, the 12-week trend and net roles added.
- Added, last 4 weeks
- 00%
- vs 0 in the 4 weeks before
- Added last week
- 00%
- Week before: 0
- Weekly trend
- +0.00
- Roles/week, per week · R² 0.00
- Net roles, 4 weeks
- +0
- 0 added − 0 closed
- Forecast this week
- 0
- Holt exponential smoothing
- Average week
- 0.0
- σ 0.0 · CV —
- 4-week refresh rate
- 0%
- New roles ÷ open roles
- 4-week churn
- 0%
- Closed roles ÷ open roles
- Median time listed
- >90 days
- 0% close within 30 days
Week of 3 AugThis week (so far)
Momentum, explained
- Tailscale hasn’t added enough roles in the last few months to read a trend yet.
Hiring history
- Roles ever listed here
- 53
- Roles added in 30 days
- 53
- Roles added in 90 days
- 53
- Roles closed in 90 days
- 0
- Tracked since
- Oct 2026
- Rank by open roles
- #64
- of 2,947 hiring startups
- Openings per current employee
- 0.14
Volume and freshness
- Open roles
- 53
- Listed in the last 7 days
- 2
- 4% of open roles
- Listed in the last 30 days
- 16
- 30% of open roles
- Typical listing age
- 56 days
- Oldest: 4 months
Pay
- Median posted pay
- $180k
- Annual USD, range midpoint
- Middle half of pay
- $147k–$202k
- 25th to 75th percentile
- Roles that post pay
- 89%
- 47 of 53
- Mention equity
- 100%
Work, level and access
- Fully remote
- 85%
- Say they sponsor visas
- 0
- Graduate and intern roles
- 4
- Median experience asked
- 5 yrs
- 4 ask a year or less
Breakdowns
53
MayJunJulAugSeptOct
By the month firsthires.live first saw each role.
- 1Engineering2751%
- 2Sales1121%
- 3Legal48%
- 4People48%
- 5Marketing36%
- 6Design24%
- 7Operations24%
- 1Mid level3770%
- 2Executive48%
- 3Graduate / entry48%
- 4Senior48%
- 5Director24%
- 6Manager24%
- 1Remote4585%
- 2Hybrid815%
- 1Hybrid (Vancouver36%
- 2Hybrid (Toronto24%
- 3Hybrid (Denver12%
- 4Hybrid (London12%
- 5Hybrid (San Francisco12%
- 1Not stated53100%
- 1Sales1732%
- 2Engineering1019%
- 3Strategic Projects59%
- 4Marketing48%
- 5Office of the CEO48%
- 6People & Talent48%
- 7Customer Support36%
- 8Customer Success24%
+4 more across 2 others
$63kLow$147k25th$180kMedian$202k75th$350kHigh
$138kLow$138k25th$175kMedian$217k75th$217kHigh
Pay is each role’s posted range converted to annual US dollars, midpoint. See every Tailscale role.