Staff Developer Relations Engineer

4 months, 3 weeks ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Buildkite

Buildkite

Buildkite: Powerful CI/CD platform for fast, secure, and scalable pipelines on your own infrastructure, offering flexibility, security, and data-driven insights.

Commercial Services & Supplies
51-250
Founded 2014
$41M raised

Description

  • Own campaign execution across priority pillars from concept and asset planning through launch and iteration.
  • Build programs that serve both developers and buyers, balancing credibility, clarity, and conversion.
  • Serve as a trusted technical advocate by showing up in the right places with honest, technical insights and answers.
  • Teach CI concepts and Buildkite workflows in formats that engineers respect.
  • Design learning paths and onboarding materials that reduce time to first value, including guides and implementation walkthroughs.
  • Partner with Product and Support to turn recurring confusion into better documentation, defaults, and user experience.
  • Help customers migrate and modernize safely by demystifying CI and clarifying what good looks like.
  • Co-create public technical assets with Content Engineering and Content Writing that answer real questions and withstand scrutiny.
  • Collect developer feedback, objections, and patterns, then route and normalize that signal for the right owners.
  • Identify and nurture champions, power users, repeat contributors, and future speakers to build durable advocacy.

Requirements

  • Proven DevRel experience with evidence of impact.
  • Strong technical credibility and public judgment.
  • Hands-on experience shipping and operating real systems.
  • Ability to hold your own in CI/CD conversations.
  • Excellent technical communication skills.
  • Ability to design effective experiences and recover smoothly when live execution breaks down.
  • Strong understanding of what erodes trust, with a focus on protecting credibility.
  • Ability to run repeatable loops and build reusable assets.
  • Experience partnering with Product, Engineering, Support, Brand, and Sales while staying anchored to technical truth.
  • Ability to define success signals, report clearly, and document learnings so the organization compounds.
  • Deep CI/CD or DevOps experience (nice to have).
  • Open source contributions or other public technical proof (nice to have).
  • Experience supporting enterprise evaluation and migration motions (nice to have).
  • Experience collaborating on events programming (nice to have).
  • Comfort building agentic tooling or workflow automation to support DevRel systems (nice to have).

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits package.
  • Flexible, remote-first culture.
  • Meaningful technical challenges at scale.
  • Opportunities for professional growth, technical leadership, and cross-team influence.
  • Collaborative, inclusive, and innovative team environment.
  • Reasonable accommodations and support throughout the recruitment process.
  • Remote-first company with asynchronous collaboration by default.

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