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Anywhere
$144K–$232K
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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.
Health Insurance
Wellness Programs
401(k) / Retirement Plan
Profit Sharing
Equity / RSUs
PTO / Vacation
Flexible Hours
Home Office Stipend
Company Equipment
Coworking Allowance
Parental Leave
Learning & Development Budget
Conference Attendance
Buildkite runs a six-stage process: an application, a recruiter screen, a role-specific Technical Interview (which may include a hands-on task), a Craft Interview assessing four competencies (Productivity, Team Player, Customer Obsessed, and Curiosity), a Values Interview, and a final outcome communicated by email. Because the company is fully remote, every stage happens over chat and video.
Buildkite is fully remote, so you can work from a home office, a co-working space, or wherever you focus best. Hiring is limited to two corridors: the ANZ region (Australia and New Zealand, described in some postings as APJ) and the US Pacific timezone. Buildkite states that applicants outside those regions cannot currently be hired, and that it is not in a position to offer sponsorship.
Recent openings span engineering (platform, data, ML, and security roles up to Principal and VP level) alongside go-to-market and customer-facing positions such as Account Executive, GTM Engineer, Customer Success Manager, and Technical Account Manager.
Buildkite is a small but growing team of roughly 150 people, deliberately kept lean on the belief that small teams can achieve big things. It is venture-backed, having raised about $41M across a 2020 Series A and a 2022 Series B.
People who do well here are comfortable working async in a small, globally distributed team, enjoy owning a wide range of projects, and value flexible hours over fixed office time. Five stated values steer the culture: Bring the weird, Be real with each other, Maintain momentum, Empower others, and Build it together.
