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Buildkite’s CI platform is trusted by the world’s leading engineering teams, shipping software to over 1,000,000,000 daily users.
We're looking for a Staff Engineer to join our Releases team. In this role, you'll help solve some of the most challenging technical problems we face as we continue to scale Buildkite's platform. You'll drive architectural decisions, lead technical strategy, and work closely with engineers, designers, and product managers to deliver impactful improvements.
Staff Engineers at Buildkite are hands-on technical leaders. You'll influence how we design, build, and scale systems while supporting other engineers to deliver their best work.
The Releases team is building Buildkite's release control plane — a foundational layer that gives platform teams one trusted, auditable view of what shipped, where, and whether it met governance requirements.
Our initial focus is designing a canonical release model (service, environment, commit, artefact, actor, status), reliable ingestion from Pipelines and GitHub Deployments, and an immutable evidence trail that powers policy gates and DORA metrics.
Beyond that foundation, the same platform becomes a progressive delivery product: staged rollouts, canary analysis, blue/green deploys, health-based promotion, and automatic rollback. In short, we're moving from observing and governing releases to orchestrating and optimising them — integrating cleanly with existing CD systems rather than forcing a full replacement.
🚀 What You’ll Do
At Buildkite, we value kindness, autonomy, and collaboration. You’ll be joining a remote-first company where your work directly helps some of the world’s best engineering teams build and ship software faster and more safely.
Our engineering teams are based across ANZ and US-Pacific time zones — a conscious decision that lets us move quickly with real overlap and minimise fully async work. So while Buildkite is fully remote, we don't hire everywhere: if you're applying from outside these regions, we're not currently in a position to hire you, and can't offer sponsorship.
At Buildkite, we value diversity and celebrate all types of skills, backgrounds, and experiences. We’re dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment and providing reasonable accommodations throughout our recruitment process.
If you need any accommodations or support during the application or interview process, please reach out to us at accommodations@buildkite.com.
Salary not disclosed for this role. See what similar remote roles pay →
Health Insurance
Wellness Programs
401(k) / Retirement Plan
Profit Sharing
Equity / RSUs
PTO / Vacation
Flexible Hours
Sick Days
Home Office Stipend
Company Equipment
Coworking Allowance
Internet Stipend
Parental Leave
Learning & Development Budget
Conference Attendance
Buildkite describes a six-stage process: application, recruiter screen, a role-specific interview that may include a hands-on task, a Craft Interview, a Values Interview, and the final outcome.
Buildkite sends new hires a Mac before their first day and provides separate technology and coworking budgets. Its Bikkie allowance can be used for wellbeing, phone, internet, stationery, and personal equipment.
Buildkite hires across engineering and technical roles as well as customer success, solutions, developer relations, sales, and other go-to-market work. The mix changes over time, so the careers page is the source for available roles.
New hires complete a company-wide onboarding program as well as team-specific onboarding, with a buddy to help them settle in.
Buildkite says it provides local retirement-plan equivalents for team members outside the United States.
