Staff DevX Engineer: AI-Driven DevEx, Fully Remote

Buildkite; Auckland; On-site; NZD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from anywhere in the world for up

Fully remote setup

Remote-work allowance

EAP & mental health support

Learning and growth budget

Retirement and health coverage

Job summary

Buildkite in Auckland is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead Developer Experience, building AI-led loops that boost the productivity of about 80 engineers across our teams. You’ll own the end-to-end developer experience, spanning CI, build tooling, codebase health, deployment paths, and how we integrate agentic coding tools.

This role is hands-on and strategic, aimed at doubling R&D output per engineer.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading DevEx or platform engineering teams.
• Experience shipping developer productivity improvements.
• Hands-on coding with production systems.
• Ability to influence across large engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end developer experience for ~80 engineers.
• Lead doubling R&D output per engineer with measurable metrics.
• Ship work hands-on across languages and services.
• Build credibility and remove roadblocks for teams.
• Advance agentic coding tooling and measure impact.

Skills

Engineering fundamentals

Platform engineering / DevEx leader

Measurably faster teams

Agentic coding tools fluency

Leadership & influence

Ambiguity in measurement

Tools

CI/CD tooling

AI-assisted tooling

Job description

Buildkite in Auckland is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead Developer Experience, building AI-led loops that boost the productivity of about 80 engineers across our teams. You’ll own the end-to-end developer experience, spanning CI, build tooling, codebase health, deployment paths, and how we integrate agentic coding tools.

This role is hands-on and strategic, aimed at doubling R&D output per engineer.