Buildkite - Senior Engineer
Requirements
• You do not need every item below. We’re looking for demonstrated depth in several areas, sound judgement, and the ability to learn the rest. • You do not need every item below. • Clear communication and effective collaboration in a distributed team. • Technical influence: navigating ambiguity, explaining trade-offs, building consensus, and driving cross-team work • Developer experience: Experience building CI/CD, internal-platform, or self-service capabilities that make the safe path easier for other engineers. • Experience owning production systems through growth, failures, migrations, and incidents. • Production AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code experience. • Infrastructure as Code: Experience managing production infrastructure with Terraform or an equivalent tool, including DNS, IAM, monitoring, and secrets. • Strong reliability practices, including observability, incident response, recovery testing, and operational improvement. • Experience building platforms or self-service capabilities that make secure, reliable delivery easier for engineers. • Multi-region or multi-cluster systems, traffic routing, and disaster recovery. • Progressive delivery, deployment guardrails, and rollback. • Platform-level authentication, identity, or compliance controls implemented through engineering rather than paperwork. • Datastores: Experience operating relational databases, caches, or queues, including migrations, replication, failover, and workload isolation. • 🗓 A Typical Day Might Include • Designing a reusable pattern for deploying or upgrading a Kubernetes environment. • Working through how a service, its data, and its traffic operate safely across regional clusters. • Reviewing Terraform, an architecture proposal, or a failover plan. • Investigating a capacity hotspot, queue backlog, network constraint, or datastore limit with a product team. • Improving a deployment guardrail, health signal, runbook, or recovery exercise. • Turning an incident action into automation or a safer operational workflow. • Pairing with or mentoring another engineer on a difficult reliability problem.
Responsibilities
• Own substantial parts of Buildkite’s AWS and multi-cluster Kubernetes platform from design through production operation. • Design reusable, self-service automation for provisioning and operating secure, consistent, and isolated platform environments. • Deliver regional architecture, request routing, disaster recovery, and tested failover capabilities. • Improve Kubernetes networking, upgrades, patching, scaling, observability, capacity management, and recovery. • Make infrastructure and deployments safer through secure defaults, progressive delivery, automated guardrails, clear health signals, and fast rollback. • Partner with product teams to diagnose distributed-system problems across service, datastore, network, and platform boundaries. • Turn incidents, capacity limits, and operational signals into durable engineering improvements. • Write well-tested, observable, documented, and operable systems; lead design discussions, review code, share context, and mentor other engineers.
Benefits
• Buildkite combines meaningful technical problems with visible impact. We’re remote-first and async by default: we document our reasoning, use meetings intentionally, and protect time for focused work. You’ll be trusted to exercise judgement, encouraged to experiment, and supported by colleagues who care about both the work and one another. • Work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks a year, on top of a fully remote setup — great work doesn't have to happen from one desk. • Work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks a year • 20 days paid annual leave plus 10 days sick & carer's leave — actively encouraged, we want you to be at your best and time off is a part of that. • 20 days paid annual leave plus 10 days sick & carer's leave • 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers (6 for secondary) — becoming a parent is life changing and we're committed to supporting you and your family through it. • 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers (6 for secondary) • A remote-work allowance for home-office kit, co-working, or working elsewhere — we want you to have everything you need to be set up for success in your role. • A remote-work allowance • Confidential EAP & mental health support — sometimes life gets hard. You should be able to access the resources and support you need. • Confidential EAP & mental health support • Support for learning and growth — with time and budget for conferences, courses, and coaching so you have the opportunity to grow, improve your craft, and build mastery. • Support for learning and growth • Retirement and health coverage (based on your region) — build towards your future, your way. • Retirement and health coverage • Exact benefits may vary slightly by country. We'll walk through the specifics for your location. • Like all of Buildkite, this role is 100 % remote, however it does need to be located in either the ANZ or PST timezone.
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