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Buildkite

Senior Engineer – Platform

Buildkite

. Own substantial parts of Buildkite’s AWS and multi-cluster Kubernetes platform from design through production operation .

Posted 10/31/2026full-timeRemote • AustraliaSeniorWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in managing AWS and Kubernetes platforms, focusing on automation, security, and operational reliability. Proven ability to enhance infrastructure through effective collaboration, incident response, and continuous improvement practices.

Highest-signal resume keywords
AWS ManagementKubernetes ExpertiseInfrastructure-As-Code ExperienceCI/CD Pipeline DevelopmentObservability and Incident Response

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Hard Skills
TerraformProduction Systems ManagementDisaster RecoveryCapacity ManagementNetwork RoutingOperational ImprovementSelf-Service AutomationProgressive DeliveryRollback MechanismsMonitoring
Soft Skills
Clear CommunicationEffective CollaborationTechnical InfluenceConsensus BuildingNavigating Ambiguity
Industry Keywords
Multi-Cluster SystemsCompliance ControlsRelational DatabasesCachesQueues

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSDNSKubernetesTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • 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

What you’ll need
  • 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
  • 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
  • Experience building platforms or self-service capabilities that make secure, reliable delivery easier for engineers
  • Useful additional experience with multi-region or multi-cluster systems, traffic routing, disaster recovery, progressive delivery, deployment guardrails, rollback, authentication, identity, compliance controls, relational databases, caches, or queues

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks a year, on top of a fully remote setup
  • 20 days paid annual leave plus 10 days sick & 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 & mental health support
  • Time and budget for conferences, courses, and coaching
  • Retirement and health coverage based on region