Staff Developer Advocate

About Buildkite Buildkite’s CI platform is trusted by the world’s leading engineering teams, shipping software to over 1,000,000,000 daily users. Job Overview 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) into 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 🎨 What You Bring This role only works with technical credibility and public judgment.