Role Description We’re looking for a Staff DevRel to be the human interface to our strategy. Our technical educator, advocate and signal-capture engine earning trust in public, accelerates adoption and keeps Buildkite’s narrative anchored to reality. We believe in devtools, DevRel is an execution system; education→proof→adoption→advocacy, run with credibility and discipline. You’ll help devs get to value faster, create moments that reinforce the cult of Buildkite and feed the org the hard truth about what’s confusing, what’s missing, and what we should ship next. We’re only interested in candidates with genuine technical depth and strong public judgment. Someone who can teach, demo, debug and influence platform direction. What You’ll Do - 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) - 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 Qualifications - This role only works with technical credibility and public judgment. - 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 Nice-to-haves - 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 How We Work - Autonomously, with agency; you'll join a small team of high-performing ICs, with the ability to drive and influence business impact from the start - Async by default, with focused sync for decisions, pairing, and unblock moments - We ship iteratively; small releases, tight feedback loops, measurable improvements - We document and work in the open; decisions, risks, tradeoffs, fails, the lot - We aim for craft and delight, but we don’t worship polish over progress Benefits - Competitive compensation and benefits package - Flexible, remote-first culture - Meaningful technical challenges at scale - Opportunities for professional growth, technical leadership, and cross-team influence - A collaborative, inclusive, and 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.

• Strengthen the frontend foundations every Mercury engineer builds on • Evolve our React, TypeScript, and Vite infrastructure • Help engineers move efficiently with automation • Optimize our testing platform for fast feedback loops • Make our CI/CD pipelines stable, ergonomic, and fast • Drive decisions by unifying technical metrics • Foster enthusiasm about frontend work at Mercury

• Lead the evolution of our AI Developer Experience, enabling engineers to safely and effectively leverage AI throughout the software development lifecycle. • Drive the evaluation, adoption and governance of AI development tooling (code generation, in-editor assistance, agentic workflows), ensuring that adoption is practical, secure and measurable. • Measure and improve the speed of common developer actions across our TypeScript/Node and Python codebases. This includes build times, pre-push hooks, linting, type checking, conformance checks, and Nx task orchestration. • Own our devcontainer strategy, both local and cloud-based, to ensure a secure, consistent and reproducible development experience that scales across multiple concurrent projects. • Maintain and improve local testing frameworks and developer-facing test infrastructure. • Own and evolve shared internal libraries and configuration systems used across application teams, ensuring they are well-documented, versioned, and easy to adopt. • Contribute to related areas including CI/CD and delivery pipelines, SDLC definition, language and library upgrade cycles (Node/Python, NPM, PyPI), developer onboarding and documentation, and observability.

Role Description The Engineering Manager leads the Developer Experience (DevEx) initiative, improving developer productivity, engineering quality, and delivery effectiveness through shared platforms, tooling, automation, and engineering best practices. This role serves as a hands-on technical leader who partners closely with Engineering, DevOps, Delivery, and platform teams to reduce developer friction, improve quality of life for engineers, and enable the efficient delivery of high-quality software across the organization. - Leads team(s) throughout software development lifecycle. - Recruits, mentors, coaches, retains, inspires engineering individual contributors and tech leads on a day-to-day basis. - Sets and tracks goals and objectives with each assigned team member. - Participates and assists with expense approval and budget planning. - Creatively solves problems and clears roadblocks that often cross technical and human factor domains. - Conducts and attends meetings with key stakeholders to present facts that lead to quality decisions. - Communicates effectively and provides clarity in a 360 fashion. - Collaborates with architects, tech leads, engineering managers, engineers, and quality engineering to build and deliver excellence and improve how we deliver, maintain and monitor quality software. Qualifications - 12+ years in industry with progressive growth in responsibility; 5+ years technical leadership and managing teams of 5 or more engineers. - Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to translate technical topics for diverse internal audiences and drive alignment. - Proven people management: hiring, coaching, performance management, and growing engineers and tech leads; strong emotional intelligence and organizational rigor. - Developer Experience / internal platform product mindset: implement vision, roadmap, and success metrics for capabilities that serve internal teams (best practices, common libraries, templates, and paved paths). - Internal customer partnership and operating model: intake and prioritization, clear engagement expectations, stakeholder management, and cross-team influence across Product Engineering. - Developer productivity measurement and continuous improvement: define baselines and outcomes (e.g., DORA metrics, CI cycle time, onboarding/time-to-first-commit, adoption, and developer satisfaction) and use them to guide investment. - Platform adoption and change management: migrations, deprecations, versioning/backward compatibility, release communications, office hours, and enablement to scale usage of common solutions. - Governance and stewardship for shared libraries and platform capabilities: API/design standards, contribution model, ownership, support expectations/SLAs, and secure-by-default patterns. - Documentation and enablement excellence: high-quality reference docs, runnable examples, golden paths, templates, and reference architectures that make the easiest path the best path. - Must have Amazon AWS experience (EC2, EKS, ECS, S3, SQS, ELB, Lambda) and experience with service/microservices-oriented architecture in a containerized environment. - Strong experience implementing Infrastructure as Code and integrating into CI/CD pipelines, with priority for Terraform and GitHub/GitLab experience. - Strong skills in at least one programming language: GoLang, C#, or TypeScript; ability to stay hands-on for design reviews, prototypes, mentoring, and raising the engineering bar. - Strong knowledge of REST APIs and web protocols and technologies (HTTPS, CORS, Postman, JSON, XML, GraphQL). - Experience implementing event-driven architectures using Kafka, Kinesis, or SNS for scalable and resilient distributed systems. - Expertise in observability practices (metrics, structured logging, distributed tracing) using Dynatrace and OpenTelemetry; define standards and provide reusable instrumentation patterns. - Experience designing and operating distributed systems with emphasis on scalability, reliability, and cost optimization; define and operate SLOs for developer-facing platform services (e.g., CI/CD, artifact management, developer environments). - Strong understanding of service mesh and modern container orchestration patterns. - Proven ability to lead teams to predictable delivery using Agile frameworks while reducing toil through automation and self-service. - Strong capability in managing technical debt strategically, balancing near-term delivery with long-term maintainability of shared platforms and libraries. - Demonstrated ability to foster effective use of AI and automation across engineering teams to improve developer productivity, decision-making, and delivery efficiency. Benefits - People-focused, entrepreneurial culture with the backing of a stable, global, corporate entity – The Nemetschek Group. - Competitive compensation and benefits package. - Fully vested 401K right from the day you start. - Generous PTO, including sick/mental health & volunteer days. - Free & unlimited access to BetterUp Care, a well-being platform. - Work-life balance fostered through a culture of diversity, inclusion, and appreciation of individual lifestyle needs. - Opportunity for continuous professional development. - Free & unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning. - Up to $5K annual education reimbursement (after 1 year tenure). Company Description Bluebeam is committed to building an inclusive environment in which everyone, regardless of background, has an opportunity to experience a deep sense of belonging. Each of our unique perspectives amplifies our collective power, and by encouraging diverse perspectives in an environment infused with mutual respect, we arrive at better solutions. And when we bring the best version of ourselves to work, we can make our best contributions to the global community of people who build our world.