Senior Platform Engineer

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹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 that make the safe path easier for other engineers
• ▹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

Nice to have

• ▹Multi-region or multi-cluster systems, traffic routing and disaster recovery
• ▹Progressive delivery, deployment guardrails and rollback
• ▹Platform-level authentication, identity or compliance controls implemented through engineering rather than paperwork
• ▹Datastores: experience operating relational databases, caches or queues, including migrations, replication, failover and workload isolation

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Fully remote setup, remote-first and async by default
• ▹Work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks a year
• ▹20 days paid annual leave plus 10 days sick and 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 and mental health support
• ▹Support for learning and growth: time and budget for conferences, courses and coaching
• ▹Retirement and health coverage (based on region)

About the company

Buildkite's mission is to unblock every developer on the planet. It builds a fast, reliable and secure software delivery platform used by companies including Airbnb, Shopify, Canva, PagerDuty, Lyft and Pinterest.