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 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.
What they're looking for
- Deep understanding of progressive delivery : canary deployments and canary analysis, blue/green, staged and phased rollouts, feature flags (e.g. LaunchDarkly), health-based promotion, and automated rollback
- Experience designing unified, self-service deployment workflows relied on across many teams or business units — reducing the toil of shipping while keeping guardrails and governance in place
- Experience with DORA metrics, release governance, or compliance/audit requirements in regulated or large-scale engineering environments
- Background integrating with source control and CI/CD platforms (GitHub, GitLab, Buildkite, etc.)
- Kubernetes, Terraform, or other infrastructure-as-code tools
- Familiarity with Kafka, Flink, or other streaming/event-driven systems
More about this role
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...
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