Staff Engineer - DevX
BuildkiteRemotely
platform engineeringaideveloper productivitycibuild toolingagentic coding tools
Job Description
📋 Description
- Own end-to-end developer experience for ~80 engineers: CI, build tooling, codebase health
- Lead goal to double R&D output per engineer; define what "faster" means and measure it
- Ship hands-on contributions across languages/services and make low-risk, high-leverage changes in
- Build credibility with the engineering team, remove roadblocks, and align teams to your ideas
- Advance agentic coding tooling: evaluate, roll out, measure impact, raise the bar for quality
🎯 Requirements
- Strong software engineering background; still writing code
- Experience in a platform engineering organization or leading AI and tooling initiatives
- Proven track record of making engineering teams faster with clear rationale
- Exposure to scale and problems that appear as systems/teams grow
- Fluency with agentic coding tools and judgement on when to trust/correct/override them
- Excellent ability to lead and influence without micromanaging; fast buy-in and good judgement
🎁 Benefits
- Work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks a year
- 20 days paid annual leave plus 10 days sick & carers leave
- 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers (6 for secondary)
- Remote-work allowance for home-office setup or coworking
- Confidential EAP and mental health support
- Support for learning and growth with conferences, courses, coaching