Senior Engineer – Platform

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🇦🇺 Australia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Buildkite

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2013

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

💰 $21M Series B on 2022-11

Consulting • Logistics • Manufacturing

Buildkite is a company that offers a scale-out delivery platform for software developers, focusing on continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflows. Their platform includes advanced features like pipeline orchestration, test engine optimization, and package registries for secure software delivery. Buildkite's solutions cater to companies looking to improve their software delivery process with capabilities such as mobile app delivery cloud, self-hosted compute options, and flexible workflow automation. The platform aims to help businesses convert innovative ideas into customer value swiftly and efficiently, making Buildkite a key player in modern software delivery systems.

📋 Description

• Own substantial parts of Buildkite’s AWS and multi-cluster Kubernetes platform from design through production operation • Design reusable, self-service automation for provisioning and operating secure, consistent, and isolated platform environments • Deliver regional architecture, request routing, disaster recovery, and tested failover capabilities • Improve Kubernetes networking, upgrades, patching, scaling, observability, capacity management, and recovery • Make infrastructure and deployments safer through secure defaults, progressive delivery, automated guardrails, clear health signals, and fast rollback • Partner with product teams to diagnose distributed-system problems across service, datastore, network, and platform boundaries • Turn incidents, capacity limits, and operational signals into durable engineering improvements • Write well-tested, observable, documented, and operable systems; lead design discussions, review code, share context, and mentor other engineers

🎯 Requirements

• Clear communication and effective collaboration in a distributed team • Technical influence: navigating ambiguity, explaining trade-offs, building consensus, and driving cross-team work • Experience building CI/CD, internal-platform, or self-service capabilities • Experience owning production systems through growth, failures, migrations, and incidents • Production AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code experience • Experience managing production infrastructure with Terraform or an equivalent tool, including DNS, IAM, monitoring, and secrets • Strong reliability practices, including observability, incident response, recovery testing, and operational improvement • Experience building platforms or self-service capabilities that make secure, reliable delivery easier for engineers • Useful additional experience with multi-region or multi-cluster systems, traffic routing, disaster recovery, progressive delivery, deployment guardrails, rollback, authentication, identity, compliance controls, relational databases, caches, or queues

🏖️ 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) • Remote-work allowance for home-office kit, co-working, or working elsewhere • Confidential EAP & mental health support • Time and budget for conferences, courses, and coaching • Retirement and health coverage based on region

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