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Senior Design Engineer, Web
Location
United States + 1 moreAll locations: United States | Australia
Posted
68 days ago
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0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Design Engineer, Web
Buildkite
About Buildkite Buildkite’s CI platform is trusted by the world’s leading engineering teams, shipping software to over 1,000,000,000 daily users. Job Overview 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. This newly created role in our Brand team exists to make our web presence fast, 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. 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. 🚀 What You’ll Do Own the Buildkite website and CMS end-to-end - Own the full web experience: information architecture, layout and design, frontend implementation, performance, accessibility, and ongoing quality - Ensure the website remains a credible, differentiated, product-grade experience that reflects Buildkite’s standards Build a component-driven system that scales - Design and build a reusable component system that stays on-brand and supports new pages, products, and content types - Establish patterns that make shipping fast while maintaining craft and consistency Define and maintain the web platform stack - Collaborate and lead on the direction of the website stack: framework, styling, build tooling, CI, hosting, analytics, and experimentation - Set pragmatic standards that keep the platform modern, maintainable, and resilient over time Evolve CMS integration and publishing workflows - Improve how content ships across the org, with safe guardrails and governance - Build preview environments, validations, reusable modules, and publishing standards that enable broader teams to contribute confidently Translate Buildkite’s identity into a living system - Work embedded in a centralised Brand team to bring typography, motion, interaction patterns, theming, and responsiveness to life - Ensure Buildkite’s design language is expressed consistently across the web surface Partner across the company as the web craft owner - Collaborate with every org function to ensure the end-to-end Buildkite experience is cohesive, coherent, and compelling - Align stakeholders while protecting quality, performance, and long-term maintainability Establish a sustainable operating model - Build monitoring, performance budgets, accessibility checks, search hygiene, and documentation - Create regular reporting and operational cadence Run a Web OS that compounds 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: - Craft loop: interaction, motion, typography; the details engineers feel - System loop: components and patterns that make new pages inevitable, not bespoke - Performance loop: speed, accessibility, SEO, reliability; always product-grade - Publishing loop: CMS guardrails so the org can ship without breaking the surface - Proof loop: repeatable launches and pages that turn Buildkite’s reality into receipts - Trust loop: simple metrics that show the site compounding, not drifting Represent Buildkite through the web with authority and taste - Treat the website as our most visible brand experience, not a brochure - Craft a domain that engineers respect in their bones - Shape what “good” looks like for Buildkite on the modern web 🎨 What You Bring - Experience extending brand systems across a modern web presence - Experience with design tooling such as Figma, Sketch, or similar - Strong frontend engineering background with frameworks such as Astro, Next, Tailwind, or equivalent - Familiarity with the DevTools and the DevOps ecosystem,understanding what credibility looks like for technical audiences - Proven ability to tackle complex problem-solving, independently or collaboratively - Clear communication skills; able to explain technical decisions to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders - High empathy and strong async collaboration instincts in a remote-first environment Additional Experience That’s a Plus: - Experience with AWS S3, CDNs, Brotli, or modern web delivery infrastructure - Familiarity with experimentation, analytics, and web performance tooling - Deep understanding of CI concepts and modern developer workflows ✨ Why Join Buildkite 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. - Competitive compensation and benefits package - Flexible, remote-first culture - Opportunities for professional growth and advancement - Help shape a proactive, world-class support function for enterprise customers - An inclusive, 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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