Staff DevRel Leader: Developer Advocacy & Growth

Buildkite; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 220,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work flexibility

Paid parental leave

Mental health support

Learning budget

Job summary

Buildkite in San Francisco is seeking a Staff DevRel to own the interface between engineering reality and developers evaluating it. You’ll teach, demo, and debug in public, while gathering signal to inform product, support, and marketing.

You’ll lead education-to-advocacy pipelines, build durable learning assets, and partner with product teams to improve docs, docs, and UX across CI/CD workflows. Remote-friendly and enterprise-ready.

Qualifications

• You've shipped and operated real systems and can hold your own in CI/CD conversations.
• You have proven DevRel experience with evidence of impact.
• You communicate technical concepts with clarity, and can recover when a live demo breaks.
• You protect credibility relentlessly and know what erodes trust.
• You build reusable assets and repeatable systems, not one-off content.
• You document what you learn so the org compounds.

Responsibilities

• Own campaign execution across priority pillars, from concept through launch and iteration.
• Build programs that layer credibility, clarity, and conversion for both developers and buyers.
• Teach CI concepts and Buildkite workflows in formats engineers respect, backed by real technical depth.
• Design learning paths — onboarding guides, implementation walkthroughs — that cut time-to-first-value.
• Partner with Product and Support to turn recurring confusion into better docs, defaults, and UX.
• Co-create dev-grade technical assets with Content Engineering and Content Writing that survive scrutiny.
• Share technical war stories with customers, partners, and OSS communities.
• Collect and categorize what developers are asking, objecting to, and struggling with, and route it to the right owners.
• Close the loop by making sure signal turns into shipped fixes.
• Identify and nurture champions — power users, repeat contributors, future speakers.
• Partner with Dev Events to turn field moments into lasting community relationships.

Job description

Buildkite in San Francisco is seeking a Staff DevRel to own the interface between engineering reality and developers evaluating it. You’ll teach, demo, and debug in public, while gathering signal to inform product, support, and marketing.

You’ll lead education-to-advocacy pipelines, build durable learning assets, and partner with product teams to improve docs, docs, and UX across CI/CD workflows. Remote-friendly and enterprise-ready.