Staff Engineer – DevX
Posted 2hrs ago
Employment Information
Report this job
Job expired or something wrong with this job?
Job Description
Staff Engineer leading AI-driven developer experience for Buildkite’s engineering team. Improving CI/CD, developer tooling, and agentic coding workflows in a product used worldwide.
Responsibilities:
- Own the end-to-end developer experience for around 80 engineers across CI, build tooling, codebase health, deployment paths, and the AI-assisted development loop
- Lead the goal of doubling R&D output per engineer and establish meaningful productivity measures
- Stay hands-on, ship real PRs across languages and services, and make low-risk, high-leverage changes in unfamiliar code
- Build credibility and relationships across the engineering team, gain buy-in, and clear roadblocks for teams you don't own
- Evaluate, roll out, and measure agentic coding tools while raising the bar for effective usage
Requirements:
- A strong software engineering background with real production experience
- Experience inside a platform engineering organisation, or a track record as the person on an engineering team who led the charge on AI and developer tooling
- Evidence that you've made engineering teams measurably faster, with a clear point of view on what worked, what didn't, and why
- Exposure to meaningful scale
- Real fluency with agentic coding tools, and good judgement about when to trust, correct, or override them
- Influence skills to lead everyone and manage no one
- High tolerance for trying new things and taking sensible risks
- Comfort with ambiguity around measurement
- Deep CI/CD experience, particularly untangling and speeding up slow pipelines
- Time in a high-performance engineering environment
- Breadth across languages and stacks
- Experience instrumenting and reporting on developer productivity
Benefits:
- Work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks a year, on top of a fully remote setup
- 20 days paid annual leave plus 10 days sick & carer's leave
- 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers (6 for secondary)
- A remote-work allowance for home-office kit, co-working, or working elsewhere
- Confidential EAP & mental health support
- Support for learning and growth, with time and budget for conferences, courses, and coaching
- Retirement and health coverage (based on your region)














