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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 24 days Buildkite's roles stay open a median of 24 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 31% of Buildkite's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Buildkite
- moderate 2 stale, 0 reposted of 13 open
- Hiring momentum
- 21 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Buildkite's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Buildkite.
About this role
The Staff Engineer - DevX at Buildkite will lead efforts to enhance Developer Experience for a team of around 80 engineers, focusing on improving CI, build tooling, and deployment paths. The role involves hands-on coding, measuring productivity improvements, and fostering relationships within the engineering team to drive changes that enhance efficiency. This position is fully remote and targets candidates in Australia, New Zealand, or the USA (West Coast).
- benefits
- 4/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Buildkite as an employer.
What you need
- Strong software engineering background with real production experience
- Experience inside a platform engineering organization or leading AI and developer tooling initiatives
- Evidence of making engineering teams measurably faster
- Exposure to meaningful scale in engineering environments
- Fluency with agentic coding tools
- Influence skills to lead without managing
Nice to have
- Deep CI/CD experience, particularly with slow pipelines
- Experience in high-performance engineering environments
- Breadth across languages and stacks
- Experience instrumenting and reporting on developer productivity
What you get
- Work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks a year
- 20 days paid annual leave plus 10 days sick & carer's leave
- 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers (6 for secondary)
- Remote-work allowance for home-office kit or co-working
- Confidential EAP & mental health support
- Support for learning and growth with time and budget for development
Worth weighing
- Role focuses on internal developer experience rather than external advocacy
- No specific salary or compensation details provided
- Remote work is limited to candidates in specific regions
Summarised from Buildkite's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Buildkite on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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