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Senior Engineer - Platform

Buildkite · ANZ Region · On-site

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About Buildkite

The fastest CI for AI workflows at scale nothing else survives. Leading software teams across industries have standardized on Buildkite for CI and orchestration. Backed by General Catalyst.

About the role

We’re hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Platform engineering organisation. The Platform team builds and operates the shared foundations that help Buildkite teams ship and scale products securely and reliably. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 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
More about this role

At Buildkite, our mission is to unblock every developer on the planet. We’ve rethought how software delivery should work and built a platform that is fast, reliable, secure, and able to scale to the needs of demanding high-growth technology companies globally, including Airbnb, Shopify, Canva, PagerDuty, Lyft, and Pinterest.

We’re hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Platform engineering organisation. The Platform team builds and operates the shared foundations that help Buildkite teams ship and scale products securely and reliably.

This is a hands-on role for a senior platform engineer with strong cloud and infrastructure foundations. You’ll design and operate reliable Kubernetes platforms across multiple clusters, solve distributed-systems challenges, automate infrastructure at scale, and take ownership of the systems you build.

We’re also hiring a Platform Engineer at intermediate level. If you’re earlier in your career than this role describes but the work below appeals, apply anyway and we’ll consider you.

Our mission is to build the foundations that let Buildkite teams ship, operate, and scale products securely and reliably. We make the reliable path the easiest...

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