Buildkite - Staff Engineer
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Requirements
• Strong communication skills, with empathy and kindness in both written and verbal collaboration • Proven experience leading technical direction within or across engineering teams • Repeated ownership of large or complex production systems, with clear evidence of impact beyond a single team • Ability to make strategic trade-offs, articulate decisions clearly, and build alignment in ambiguous situations • Strong judgment about where to invest versus where to simplify • Comfortable working directly with customers and incorporating feedback into product development • Familiarity with CI/CD systems, developer tooling, and DevOps concepts • Technical Stack: • Technical Stack: • Go — our primary language, used across our agents and infrastructure. Strong experience or a genuine eagerness to go deep is a must. • Kubernetes & AWS — we run cloud-native infrastructure at scale. Experience with container orchestration and distributed systems is a big plus. • Terraform — we manage our infrastructure as code with Terraform. Familiarity with IaC principles and writing reusable, maintainable Terraform is valued. • Ruby on Rails — the backbone of the Buildkite platform. The majority of our product is built here, so comfort with Rails or a willingness to pick it up matters. • React & GraphQL — our frontend and API layer, used across the platform alongside Rails. • 🗓 A Typical Day Might Include • Leading an architecture discussion for a new capability or system change • Reviewing pull requests with detailed, constructive feedback • Pairing with an engineer on a complex infrastructure problem • Investigating performance bottlenecks or scaling challenges • Driving alignment across teams on a cross-cutting technical decision • Writing code on the hardest or most ambiguous parts of the work
Responsibilities
• Help guide the technical direction for the Compute and Agents team, shaping architecture and system design decisions • Lead the hardest cross-system integrations and drive solutions to complex infrastructure challenges • Design and evolve systems, patterns, and standards that improve reliability, performance, and operability across teams • Write code, review code, and pair with engineers — leading by example on quality and craft • Build alignment across teams and stakeholders on technical decisions, balancing speed, quality, and impact • Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to shape solutions that solve customer problems • Mentor and upskill engineers within the team, raising capability and setting shared standards • Lead cross-team reliability, performance, and cost initiatives; set operational readiness expectations for major changes • Participate in customer research and discovery sessions to inform product and architectural decisions
Benefits
• At Buildkite, we value kindness, autonomy, and collaboration. You'll be part of a remote-first company where your work can make a meaningful impact — empowering engineers worldwide to build and deliver better software faster. • Competitive compensation and benefits package • Flexible, remote-first culture • Opportunities for professional growth, leadership, and technical ownership • Work alongside talented, passionate engineers building world-class developer tools • A collaborative, inclusive, and innovative culture where your ideas make a real impact
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