A strong software engineering background with real production experience — you're an engineer first, and you're still writing the code
Experience inside a platform engineering organisation, or a track record as the person on an engineering team who led the charge on AI and developer tooling
Evidence that you've made engineering teams measurably faster, along with a clear point of view on what worked, what didn't, and why
Exposure to meaningful scale, so you've seen the problems that only appear once systems and teams get big
Real fluency with agentic coding tools, and a good instinct for when to trust them, correct them, or override them entirely
The influence skills to lead everyone and manage no one, which means strong relationships, fast buy-in, and the judgement to ask "is this a terrible idea?" of the right people before you ship
An absolute intolerance for going slowly, paired with a high tolerance for trying new things and taking sensible risks
Comfort with ambiguity around measurement, so you can build a compelling case from imperfect signals without gaming them
Deep CI/CD experience, particularly untangling and speeding up slow pipelines
Time in a high-performance engineering environment where pace was a genuine cultural norm rather than an aspiration
Breadth across languages and stacks rather than depth in any single one
Experience instrumenting and reporting on developer productivity
✨ Why Join Buildkite
This is a front-row seat to the biggest rate of change that software engineering will most likely ever see. You'll have a direct hand in making a team of around 80 engineers twice as fast, and by extension, making our customers faster too, so the dent you can make in the world through this role is a substantial one
If like us you have a low tolerance for moving slowly and a high tolerance for trying things that might not work, which means you'll be trusted to take real swings without waiting for permission, you'll enjoy it here
At Buildkite, we value kindness, autonomy, and collaboration. You'll be working on a product used by some of the world's leading engineering teams operating at serious scale, alongside people who care as much as you do about how software gets built