Staff Developer Relations Engineer

Buildkite is a leading CI platform trusted by top engineering teams worldwide. They are seeking a Staff Developer Relations Engineer to serve as a technical educator and advocate, focusing on accelerating adoption and enhancing the developer experience through effective communication and education.

Responsibilities:

• Ship a dev-first demand engine
• 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:
• Education loop; teach→observe confusion→update assets→improve onboarding
• Signal loop; capture→normalise→route→action
• Proof loop; identify gaps→co-build proof→validate→publish→reuse
• Adoption loop; guides/patterns→activation→support deflection→iteration
• Advocacy loop; champions→moments→contributions→amplification
• Coherence loop; align with Brand/GTM/Dev Voice→reduce drift

Requirements:

• 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
• 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