Buildkite · 1 month ago
Staff Developer Relations Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/StaffBuildkite is a CI platform trusted by leading engineering teams. They are looking for a Staff Developer Relations Engineer to serve as a technical educator and advocate, accelerating adoption and ensuring that Buildkite's narrative is grounded in reality.
SoftwareCloud ComputingDeveloper PlatformDeveloper ToolsPaaSSoftware Engineering
Responsibilities
Own campaign execution across priority pillars, from concept→asset plan→launch→iteration
Build programs that serve devs *and* buyers; credibility up top, clarity in the middle, conversion at the bottom
Create a repeatable cadence that aligns our Labs (Brand Systems + Dev Voice + GTM) into
Show up in the right places with real, honest and technical insights and answers
Teach CI concepts and Buildkite workflows in formats engineers respect
Build credibility by engaging with reality
Design learning paths that reduce time-to-first-value: onboarding guides, implementation walkthroughs, etc
Partner with Product/Support to turn recurring confusion into better docs, better defaults, and better UX
Help teams migrate and modernise safely by demystifying CI and making it clear what good looks like
Partner with customers (large, small and OSS) to share technical war stories and value-first storytelling, both for CI and for deeper orchestration
Co-create with Content Engineering and Content Writing to turn technical reality into distributable proof
Capture and publish dev-grade assets that answer real questions and survive scrutiny
Maintain a high bar for public artifacts
Collect what devs are asking, what objections repeat, what patterns emerge and route it to the right owners
Make signal legible; categorise, quantify, and tell the truth clearly, even if it’s uncomfortable
Close the loop; ensure signal turns into shipped fixes
Identify and nurture champions; power users, repeat contributors, future speakers
Create pathways from curious→capable→confident→advocate, with the assets and moments needed at each step
Partner with Dev Events to turn field moments into ongoing relationships and durable community pull
You’ll operate with a cadence that scales beyond any single person: Education loop; teach→observe confusion→update assets→improve onboarding; Signal loop; capture→normalise→route→action; Proof loop; identify gaps→co-build proof→validate→publish→reuse; Adoption loop; guides/patterns→activation→support deflection→iteration; Advocacy loop; champions→moments→contributions→amplification; Coherence loop; align with Brand/GTM/Dev Voice→reduce drift
Qualification
Required
You've shipped and operated real systems and can hold your own in CI/CD conversations
Proven DevRel experience with evidence of impact
Excellent technical communication
You can design experiences that land, and you can recover when things break live
You know what erodes trust and you protect credibility relentlessly
You can run loops and build reusable assets
You partner with Product, Eng, Support, Brand, and Sales while staying anchored to technical truth
You can define success signals and report simply, clearly and regularly
You document what you learn so the org compounds
You see gaps, you ship fixes
Preferred
Deep CI/CD or DevOps experience
OSS contributions or public technical proof
Experience supporting enterprise evaluation and migration motions
Experience collaborating on events programming
Comfort building agentic tooling / workflow automation to support DevRel systems
Benefits
Competitive compensation and benefits package
Flexible, remote-first culture
Opportunities for professional growth, technical leadership, and cross-team influence
A collaborative, inclusive, and innovative culture where your ideas make a real impact
Company
Buildkite
Buildkite is a platform for running fast, secure, and scalable continuous integration pipelines on your own infrastructure.
Founded in 2013
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$41.48MKey Investors
Airtree Ventures,OneVenturesOpenView
2022-11-15Series B· $20.98M
2020-08-18Series A· $20.31M
2014-01-01Seed· $0.18M
Recent News
General Catalyst
2025-12-05
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