Senior Design Engineer, Web at Buildkite

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Senior Design Engineer, Web at Buildkite. . Location: Australia. About Buildkite. . At Buildkite, our mission is to unblock every developer on the planet. We’ve rethought how software delivery should work and have built a platform that is fast, reliable, secure, and able to scale to the needs of the most demanding high-growth tech companies globally including Airbnb, Canva, Shopify, PagerDuty, and Lyft.. . 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 on our centralised Brand & Design 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 & Design 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, including salary, equity, 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 [email protected].