Job Description
About Buildkite
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At Buildkite, our mission is to unblock every developer on the planet. We've rethought how software delivery should work and have built a platform that is fast, reliable, secure, and able to scale to the needs of the most demanding high-growth tech companies globally including Airbnb, Canva, Shopify, PagerDuty, and Lyft.
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Job Overview
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This is a rare "own the whole surface" web role: the chance to run Buildkite's most visible experience end-to-end, turning brand and product narrative into a fast, beautiful, scalable website.
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This newly created role on our centralised Brand & Design team exists to make our web presence rapid, elegant, differentiated, and durable;a system that can evolve with our story, showcase real proof, and ship new pages and content without painful rebuilds or fragile hacks.
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You'll own the craft at the intersection of design quality and production-grade frontend engineering, collaborating across the company from product to sales to support and back again.
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???? What You'll Do
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Own the Buildkite website and CMS end-to-end
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Own the full web experience: information architecture, layout and design, frontend implementation, performance, accessibility, and ongoing quality
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Ensure the website remains a credible, differentiated, product-grade experience that reflects Buildkite's standards
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Build a component-driven system that scales
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Design and build a reusable component system that stays on-brand and supports new pages, products, and content types
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Establish patterns that make shipping fast while maintaining craft and consistency
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Define and maintain the web platform stack
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Collaborate and lead on the direction of the website stack: framework, styling, build tooling, CI, hosting, analytics, and experimentation
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Set pragmatic standards that keep the platform modern, maintainable, and resilient over time
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Evolve CMS integration and publishing workflows
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Improve how content ships across the org, with safe guardrails and governance
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Build preview environments, validations, reusable modules,



and publishing standards that enable broader teams to contribute confidently
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Translate Buildkite's identity into a living system
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Work embedded in a centralised Brand & Design team to bring typography, motion, interaction patterns, theming, and responsiveness to life
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Ensure Buildkite's design language is expressed consistently across the web surface
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Partner across the company as the web craft owner
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Collaborate with every org function to ensure the end-to-end Buildkite experience is cohesive, coherent, and compelling
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Align stakeholders while protecting quality, performance, and long-term maintainability
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Establish a sustainable operating model
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Build monitoring, performance budgets, accessibility checks, search hygiene, and documentation
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Create regular reporting and operational cadence
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Run a Web OS that compounds
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You'll operate with a cadence that scales beyond you - building a web platform that gets sharper, faster, and more undeniable every time we ship:
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Craft loop:
interaction, motion, typography; the details engineers feel
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System loop:
components and patterns that make new pages inevitable, not bespoke
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Performance loop:
speed, accessibility, SEO, reliability; always product-grade
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Publishing loop:
CMS guardrails so the org can ship without breaking the surface
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Proof loop:
repeatable launches and pages that turn Buildkite's reality into receipts
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Trust loop:
simple metrics that show the site compounding, not drifting
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Represent Buildkite through the web with authority and taste
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Treat the website as our most visible brand experience, not a brochure
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Craft a domain that engineers respect in their bones
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Shape what "good" looks like for Buildkite on the modern web
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What You Bring
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Experience extending brand systems across a modern web presence
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Experience with design tooling such as Figma, Sketch, or similar
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Strong frontend engineering background with frameworks such as Astro, Next, Tailwind, or equivalent
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Familiarity with the DevTools and the DevOps
ecosystem,understanding
what credibility looks like for technical audiences
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Proven ability to tackle complex problem-solving, independently or collaboratively
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Clear communication skills; able to explain technical decisions to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
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High empathy and strong async collaboration instincts in a remote-first environment
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Additional Experience That's a Plus:
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Experience with AWS S3, CDNs, Brotli, or modern web delivery infrastructure
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Familiarity with experimentation, analytics, and web performance tooling
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Deep understanding of CI concepts and modern developer workflows
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✨ Why Join Buildkite
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At Buildkite, we value kindness, autonomy, and collaboration. You'll be part of a remote-first company where your work can make a meaningful impact – empowering engineers worldwide to build and deliver better software faster.
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Competitive compensation, including salary, equity, and benefits package
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Flexible, remote-first culture
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Opportunities for professional growth and advancement
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Help shape a proactive, world-class support function for enterprise customers
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An inclusive, innovative culture where your ideas make a real impact
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Equal Opportunity Employer
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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.
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If you need any accommodations or support during the application or interview process, please reach out to us at .

📌 Senior Design Engineer, Web (Queensland)
🏢 Buildkite
📍 Queensland