Senior Engineer at Buildkite

, Waikato, New Zealand -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

08 Mar, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

08 Dec, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Strong Communication Skills, Distributed Engineering Teams, Clean Code, Technical Trade-offs, Customer Interaction, CI/CD Systems, Developer Tooling, DevOps Concepts, Ruby on Rails, React, GraphQL, Go, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, PostgreSQL

Industry

Software Development

Description

About Buildkite At Buildkite, our mission is to unblock every developer on the planet. We’ve rethought how software delivery should work and have built a platform that is fast, reliable, secure, and able to scale to the needs of the most demanding high-growth tech companies globally including Airbnb, Shopify, Canva, PagerDuty, Lyft, and Pinterest. Job Overview In this role, you’ll help design, build, and scale tools that empower some of the world’s best software engineering teams. You’ll collaborate closely with engineers, designers, and product managers to deliver impactful features and improvements while working on challenges at the intersection of developer experience, scalability, and performance. This is a highly collaborative, hands-on role where you’ll contribute to product development, influence architectural decisions, and help shape the future of Buildkite’s platform. 🚀 What You’ll Do Design, build, and ship features that improve developer experience and productivity Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to shape solutions that solve customer problems Pair program and participate in code reviews, offering and receiving constructive feedback Contribute to technical decisions, balancing trade-offs between performance, scalability, and maintainability Build and maintain high-quality, well-tested, and maintainable code Participate in customer research, discovery sessions, and feedback loops to inform product development Help mentor and upskill other engineers within the team Stay curious and experiment with emerging tools, patterns, and practices 🎨What You Bring Strong communication skills, with empathy and kindness in both written and verbal collaboration Proven experience working in distributed engineering teams Passion for writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code Ability to analyse technical trade-offs, articulate solutions clearly, and build team consensus Comfortable working directly with customers and incorporating feedback into product development Familiarity with CI/CD systems, developer tooling, and DevOps concepts Example Technical Stacks: Ruby on Rails / React / GraphQL / Relay – Growth, Test Analytics Go / Kubernetes / Terraform / AWS – Pipelines, Platform PostgreSQL or other relational databases at scale Kafka / Flink / ML frameworks – optional if relevant Experience configuring or working with modern CI platforms ✨ Why Join Buildkite At Buildkite, we value kindness, autonomy, and collaboration. You’ll be part of a remote-first company where your work can make a meaningful impact – empowering engineers worldwide to build and deliver better software faster. Competitive compensation, including salary, equity, and benefits package Flexible, remote-first culture Opportunities for professional growth, leadership, and technical ownership Work alongside talented, passionate engineers building world-class developer tools A collaborative, inclusive, and innovative culture where your ideas make a real impact 🌈 Equal Opportunity Employer At Buildkite, we value diversity and celebrate all types of skills, backgrounds, and experiences. We’re dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment and providing reasonable accommodations throughout our recruitment process. If you need any accommodations or support during the application or interview process, please reach out to us at accommodations@buildkite.com.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will design, build, and ship features that enhance developer experience and productivity. You will collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to deliver impactful solutions.