# Staff Engineer - Releases 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: 2026-03-29
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/buildkite/jobs/5169404008
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/buildkite-staff-engineer-releases/

## 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

Tags: Engineering