Senior Engineer (Pipelines)
BuildkiteAustralia • New Zealand
Posted December 12, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Buildkite is a remote-first company that values kindness, autonomy, and collaboration. We're dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment and providing reasonable accommodations throughout our recruitment process.
Job Description
At Buildkite, we're looking for a Senior Engineer to help design, build, and scale tools that empower software engineering teams. You'll collaborate closely with engineers, designers, and product managers to deliver impactful features and improvements.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in engineering
- Deep experience designing, developing, and maintaining complex Ruby on Rails applications in production
- Comfortable working with performance at scale from N+1 queries to indexing strategies to diagnosing slow paths
- Experience using observability tools like Datadog, Honeycomb, etc.
- Comfortable wearing many hats: helping a customer one moment, pitching an idea to the team the next, digging into the database, or refining product requirements
- Understand good development practices: writing clear commits, thoughtful pull requests, and reliable tests with tools like RSpec
Benefits
- 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