Staff Developer Advocate

Buildkite's CI platform is trusted by the world's leading engineering teams, helping ship software used by more than 1 billion people every day. Companies including Canva, Meta, Mistral AI, and NVIDIA rely on Buildkite to run builds, tests, and deployments on their infrastructure, ours, or both - giving them the speed, reliability, and flexibility to ship with confidence.

This is a Staff DevRel role: you'll own the human interface between Buildkite's engineering reality and the developers evaluating, adopting, and championing it. You'll teach, demo, and debug in public, while running signal capture that feeds Product, Support, and Marketing the truth about what's confusing, what's missing, and what to ship next.

You'll operate with full ownership of the education-to-advocacy pipeline (from concept, to shipped artifact, to champion, inside a small) high-trust team where credibility comes from technical depth.

• Own campaign execution across priority pillars, from concept through launch and iteration
• Build programs that layer credibility, clarity, and conversion for both developers and buyers

• Teach CI concepts and Buildkite workflows in formats engineers respect, backed by real technical depth
• Design learning paths — onboarding guides, implementation walkthroughs — that cut time-to-first-value
• Partner with Product and Support to turn recurring confusion into better docs, defaults, and UX

• Co-create dev-grade technical assets with Content Engineering and Content Writing that survive scrutiny
• Share technical war stories with customers, partners, and OSS communities

• Collect and categorize what developers are asking, objecting to, and struggling with, and route it to the right owners
• Close the loop by making sure signal turns into shipped fixes

• Identify and nurture champions — power users, repeat contributors, future speakers
• Partner with Dev Events to turn field moments into lasting community relationships

• You've shipped and operated real systems and can hold your own in CI/CD conversations
• You have proven DevRel experience with evidence of impact
• You communicate technical concepts with clarity, and can recover when a live demo breaks
• You protect credibility relentlessly and know what erodes trust
• You build reusable assets and repeatable systems, not one-off content
• You document what you learn so the org compounds

• You have deep CI/CD or DevOps experience
• You have OSS contributions or public technical proof
• You've supported enterprise evaluation and migration motions
• You've collaborated on events programming
• You're comfortable building agentic tooling or workflow automation for DevRel systems

Every application gets a response. If this sounds like the way you already work, apply, or reach out with questions first.

At Buildkite, we value diversity and celebrate all types of skills, backgrounds, and experiences. We’re dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment and providing reasonable accommodations throughout our recruitment process.

If you need any accommodations or support during the application or interview process, please reach out to us at accommodations@buildkite.com.