# Staff Engineer - DevX at Buildkite

- Company: Buildkite
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://buildkite.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: ANZ Region
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-23
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/buildkite/jobs/5399250008
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/buildkite-staff-engineer-devx/

## About the role

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead Developer Experience at Buildkite, building the compounding, AI-led development loops that lifts the productivity of all our engineers.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Engineering