diff --git a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
index fe67d39e70f9..afb4d25de080 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
@@ -1230,6 +1230,7 @@
   ./services/networking/syncthing.nix
   ./services/networking/tailscale.nix
   ./services/networking/tailscale-auth.nix
+  ./services/networking/tailscale-derper.nix
   ./services/networking/tayga.nix
   ./services/networking/tcpcrypt.nix
   ./services/networking/teamspeak3.nix
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/networking/tailscale-derper.nix b/nixos/modules/services/networking/tailscale-derper.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9549cc5c6640
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/networking/tailscale-derper.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+{
+  config,
+  lib,
+  pkgs,
+  ...
+}:
+
+let
+  cfg = config.services.tailscale.derper;
+in
+{
+  meta.maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ SuperSandro2000 ];
+
+  options = {
+    services.tailscale.derper = {
+      enable = lib.mkEnableOption "Tailscale Derper. See upstream doc <https://tailscale.com/kb/1118/custom-derp-servers> how to configure it on clients";
+
+      domain = lib.mkOption {
+        type = lib.types.str;
+        description = "Domain name under which the derper server is reachable.";
+      };
+
+      openFirewall = lib.mkOption {
+        type = lib.types.bool;
+        default = true;
+        description = ''
+          Whether to open the firewall for the specified port.
+          Derper requires the used ports to be opened, otherwise it doesn't work as expected.
+        '';
+      };
+
+      package = lib.mkPackageOption pkgs [
+        "tailscale"
+        "derper"
+      ] { };
+
+      stunPort = lib.mkOption {
+        type = lib.types.port;
+        default = 3478;
+        description = ''
+          STUN port to listen on.
+          See online docs <https://tailscale.com/kb/1118/custom-derp-servers#prerequisites> on how to configure a different external port.
+        '';
+      };
+
+      port = lib.mkOption {
+        type = lib.types.port;
+        default = 8010;
+        description = "The port the derper process will listen on. This is not the port tailscale will connect to.";
+      };
+
+      verifyClients = lib.mkOption {
+        type = lib.types.bool;
+        default = false;
+        description = ''
+          Whether to verify clients against a locally running tailscale daemon if they are allowed to connect to this node or not.
+        '';
+      };
+    };
+  };
+
+  config = lib.mkIf cfg.enable {
+    networking.firewall = lib.mkIf cfg.openFirewall {
+      # port 80 and 443 are opened by nginx already
+      allowedUDPPorts = [ cfg.stunPort ];
+    };
+
+    services = {
+      nginx = {
+        enable = true;
+        upstreams.tailscale-derper = {
+          servers."127.0.0.1:${toString cfg.port}" = { };
+          extraConfig = ''
+            keepalive 64;
+          '';
+        };
+        virtualHosts."${cfg.domain}" = {
+          addSSL = true; # this cannot be forceSSL as derper sends some information over port 80, too.
+          locations."/" = {
+            proxyPass = "http://tailscale-derper";
+            proxyWebsockets = true;
+            extraConfig = ''
+              keepalive_timeout 0;
+              proxy_buffering off;
+            '';
+          };
+        };
+      };
+
+      tailscale.enable = lib.mkIf cfg.verifyClients true;
+    };
+
+    systemd.services.tailscale-derper = {
+      serviceConfig = {
+        ExecStart =
+          "${lib.getExe' cfg.package "derper"} -a :${toString cfg.port} -c /var/lib/derper/derper.key -hostname=${cfg.domain} -stun-port ${toString cfg.stunPort}"
+          + lib.optionalString cfg.verifyClients " -verify-clients";
+        DynamicUser = true;
+        Restart = "always";
+        RestartSec = "5sec"; # don't crash loop immediately
+        StateDirectory = "derper";
+        Type = "simple";
+
+        CapabilityBoundingSet = [ "" ];
+        DeviceAllow = null;
+        LockPersonality = true;
+        NoNewPrivileges = true;
+        MemoryDenyWriteExecute = true;
+        PrivateDevices = true;
+        PrivateUsers = true;
+        ProcSubset = "pid";
+        ProtectClock = true;
+        ProtectControlGroups = true;
+        ProtectHostname = true;
+        ProtectKernelLogs = true;
+        ProtectKernelModules = true;
+        ProtectKernelTunables = true;
+        ProtectProc = "invisible";
+        RestrictAddressFamilies = [
+          "AF_INET"
+          "AF_INET6"
+          "AF_UNIX"
+        ];
+        RestrictNamespaces = true;
+        RestrictRealtime = true;
+        SystemCallArchitectures = "native";
+        SystemCallFilter = [ "@system-service" ];
+      };
+      wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
+    };
+  };
+}