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.
Requirements
- Design the release architecture and core data model, including the canonical release entity and its relationships across services, environments, artefacts, and actors
- Lead key technical decisions around security, reliability, and scale — particularly for the immutable evidence trail and policy gate infrastructure
- Drive the hardest cross-system integrations, including ingestion from Pipelines and GitHub Deployments
- Ensure the platform is extensible enough to support progressive delivery capabilities (canary analysis, staged rollouts, health-based promotion, automatic rollback) without requiring customers to replace existing CD tooling
- Design, build, and scale tools and systems relied on by some of the best engineering teams in the world
- Solve complex technical challenges around performance, reliability, and scalability
- Work closely with customers and stakeholders to deeply understand their release and governance challenges, and deliver practical, high-impact solutions
- Drive improvements to developer experience through better tooling, automation, and processes
- Investigate and resolve complex performance and reliability issues across the stack
- Explore systems at every layer — from infrastructure patterns to backend services and data stores
- Share knowledge and drive engineering best practices across teams through documentation, mentorship, and pairing
- Support the wider engineering organisation by contributing to cross-team tooling, infrastructure, and frameworks
- Communicate trade-offs effectively and build alignment around technical decisions
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, including salary, equity, and benefits package
- Flexible, remote-first culture (Remote in the ANZ & PST Regions)
- Meaningful technical challenges at scale
- Opportunities for professional growth, technical leadership, and cross-team influence
- A collaborative, inclusive, and innovative culture where your ideas make a real impact
