Engineering Manager - Platform

the team works on next, plan for it, and rally

the team around it. Drive delivery of work that improves the scalability, reliability, and security of our platform. Run regular 1:1s — understand what motivates each engineer and help them grow their career. Unblock

the team — remove bottlenecks, make tactical calls, get into the code when it helps. Review code and technical plans. Make tactical code changes to support

the team when it matters. Join customer calls to hear what's breaking and shape

the team's direction around real signal. Evaluate and manage key vendor relationships — usage, plans, recommendations. 📋

What We're Looking For Proven experience leading and mentoring engineering teams, with a track record of collaboration and delivery. Strong Platform / SRE background — you've maintained large-scale applications and made them reliable. Familiarity with the kind of stack we run: Rails, Ruby, Postgres, AWS containerised environments, Terraform. Deep understanding of deployment safety — canaries, blue/green, smoke tests — operated, not just understood. Operational maturity — infrastructure upgrades, compliance (SOC2 a plus), and on-call structures. Strong written communication. We're remote-first and async-first. Customer instinct — you engage with stakeholders, understand needs, and translate them into team direction. 💻 Tech Stack Ruby on Rails — the application layer. Postgres — primary datastore. AWS Fargate — containerised compute. Terraform — infrastructure as code. CI/CD — canaries, blue/green, smoke tests. We use our own product. 🗓 A Typical Day Might Include A 1:1 with an engineer on

the team — what they're working on, what they're stuck on, where they want to grow. Reviewing a PR on deploy tooling and leaving substantive feedback. Pairing on a tricky migration or a thorny rollback question. A customer call to hear where the platform is creating friction. A vendor review — usage, plan, alternatives, recommendation. Writing the next plan in shared docs and Slack threads. ✨

Why Join Buildkite You'll lead

the team that makes every other engineering team's work possible — the platform that powers CI for some of the most demanding engineering organisations in the world. You'll have the autonomy to shape direction, the technical depth to stay hands-on, and a remote-first team built around trust. 🌈 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 [email protected].

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