Staff Developer Relations Engineer
Buildkite
- Saint Paul, Illinois, United States
- Saint Paul, Illinois, United States
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Job Overview We’re looking for a Staff DevRel to be the human interface to our strategy. Our technical educator, advocate and signal‑capture engine earning trust in public, accelerates adoption and keeps Buildkite’s narrative anchored to reality.
We believe in devtools, DevRel is an execution system; education→proof→adoption→advocacy, run with credibility and discipline. You’ll help devs get to value faster, create moments that reinforce the cult of Buildkite and feed the org the hard truth about what’s confusing, what’s missing, and what we should ship next.
We’re only interested in candidates with genuine technical depth and strong public judgment. Someone who can teach, demo, debug and influence platform direction.
What You’ll Do
Own campaign execution across priority pillars, from concept→asset plan→launch→iteration
Build programs that serve devs and buyers; credibility up top, clarity in the middle, conversion at the bottom
Create a repeatable cadence that aligns our Labs (Brand Systems + Dev Voice + GTM) into
Be the technical advocate devs trust
Show up in the right places with real, honest and technical insights and answers
Teach CI concepts and Buildkite workflows in formats engineers respect
Build credibility by engaging with reality
Accelerate adoption with education and practical pathways
Design learning paths that reduce time-to-first-value: onboarding guides, implementation walkthroughs, etc
Partner with Product/Support to turn recurring confusion into better docs, better defaults, and better UX
Help teams migrate and modernise safely by demystifying CI and making it clear what good looks like
Partner with customers (large, small and OSS) to share technical war stories and value‑first storytelling, both for CI and for deeper orchestration
Turn proof into public artifacts
Co‑create with Content Engineering and Content Writing to turn technical reality into distributable proof
Capture and publish dev‑grade assets that answer real questions and survive scrutiny
Maintain a high bar for public artifacts
Run signal capture for the whole org
Collect what devs are asking, what objections repeat, what patterns emerge and route it to the right owners
Make signal legible; categorise, quantify, and tell the truth clearly, even if it’s uncomfortable
Close the loop; ensure signal turns into shipped fixes
Build durable advocacy and champion pathways
Identify and nurture champions; power users, repeat contributors, future speakers
Create pathways from curious→capable→confident→advocate, with the assets and moments needed at each step
Partner with Dev Events to turn field moments into ongoing relationships and durable community pull
Run an OS that compounds You’ll operate with a cadence that scales beyond any single person:
Coherence loop;
align with Brand/GTM/Dev Voice→reduce drift
What You Bring This role only works with technical credibility and public judgment.
You’ve shipped and operated real systems and can hold your own in CI/CD conversations
Proven DevRel experience with evidence of impact
Excellent technical communication
You can design experiences that land, and you can recover when things break live
You know what erodes trust and you protect credibility relentlessly
You can run loops and build reusable assets
You partner with Product, Eng, Support, Brand, and Sales while staying anchored to technical truth
You can define success signals and report simply, clearly and regularly
You document what you learn so the org compounds
You see gaps, you ship fixes
Nice-to-haves
Deep CI/CD or DevOps experience
OSS contributions or public technical proof
Experience supporting enterprise evaluation and migration motions
Experience collaborating on events programming
Comfort building agentic tooling / workflow automation to support DevRel systems
How We Work
Autonomously, with agency; you'll join a small team of high‑performing ICs, with the ability to drive and influence business impact from the start
Async by default, with focused sync for decisions, pairing, and unblock moments
We ship iteratively; small releases, tight feedback loops, measurable improvements
We document and work in the open; decisions, risks, tradeoffs, fails, the lot
We aim for craft and delight, but we don’t worship polish over progress
At Buildkite, we value kindness, autonomy, and collaboration. You’ll be joining a remote‑first company where your work directly helps some of the world’s best engineering teams build and ship software faster and more safely.
Competitive compensation, including salary, equity, and benefits package
Flexible, remote‑first culture
Meaningful technical challenges at scale
Opportunities for professional growth, technical leadership, and cross‑team influence
A collaborative, inclusive, and innovative culture where your ideas make a real impact
Equal Opportunity Employer 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.
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Sprachkenntnisse
- English
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