Senior Engineer (Pipelines)
Buildkite
About this role
A Senior Software Engineer at Buildkite will design, build, and scale tools that empower developer teams within a remote-first company. The role contributes to product development, influences architectural decisions, and helps ensure platform reliability and performance at scale. You’ll work closely with engineers, designers, and product managers to deliver impactful features and improvements.
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About Buildkite
buildkite.comBuildkite is a scale-out delivery platform that helps engineering teams run CI/CD and modern ML/AI workloads by combining a hosted control plane with lightweight agents that execute builds on your own infrastructure or cloud. It offers pipeline-as-code, parallelized test execution, integrations with common developer tools, and features for observability, release automation, and security. Buildkite emphasizes flexibility and performance so platform teams can keep compute and secrets on-premises while scaling horizontally for large test matrices and complex delivery workflows. Trusted by many leading software companies, it positions itself as a more customizable, secure alternative to single-tenant CI/CD services.
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About Buildkite
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Leadership Team
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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Salary
$126k – $170k
per year