# Staff Engineer - DevX

**Company**: Buildkite
**Location**: ANZ Region
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead Developer Experience at Buildkite, building AI-led development loops that increase the productivity of our engineers.

Our goal is to double R&D output per engineer over the next 12 months across a team of around 80 engineers, and this role is key to achieving that. You'll focus on improving the developer experience, including CI, build tooling, codebase health, deployment paths, and AI-assisted development loops.

As a Staff Engineer, you'll own the end-to-end developer experience for around 80 engineers. Your responsibilities will include:

- Leading the goal of doubling R&D output per engineer

- Staying hands-on and shipping work yourself, making low-risk, high-leverage changes in unfamiliar code

- Building credibility and relationships with the engineering team to get buy-in for your ideas

- Pushing the frontier on agentic coding tooling, evaluating it, rolling it out, and measuring its effectiveness

To succeed in this role, you'll need:

- A strong software engineering background with real production experience

- Experience inside a platform engineering organisation or leading AI and developer tooling efforts

- Evidence of making engineering teams measurably faster

- Exposure to meaningful scale and its associated problems

- Fluency with agentic coding tools and a good instinct for when to trust them

- Influence skills to lead everyone and manage no one

- An intolerance for going slowly and a high tolerance for trying new things

Additional experience that's useful includes:

- Deep CI/CD experience

- Time in a high-performance engineering environment

- Breadth across languages and stacks

- Experience instrumenting and reporting on developer productivity

We offer a range of benefits, including:

- Flexible work arrangements, including working 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

- A remote-work allowance for home-office kit, co-working, or working elsewhere

- Confidential EAP & mental health support

- Support for learning and growth, including time and budget for conferences, courses, and coaching

- Retirement and health coverage (based on your region)

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- CI/CD
- agentic coding tools
- platform engineering
- AI

### Nice to have
- deep CI/CD experience
- high-performance engineering environment
- breadth across languages and stacks
- experience instrumenting and reporting on developer productivity

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