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Engineering @ Buildkite

Building a popular CI/CD and test analytics platform.

Engineering team at Buildkite.
Founded
2014
Work Style
Remote
Industry
Developer Tools
Employees
113
Engineers
54
Funding
Series B
Glassdoor
Rating
5.0
Engineering Avg.
Equity
Yes
Ownership
Private

Contributing to happier software teams

Buildkite have rethought how CI/CD should work and have built a platform that is fast, reliable, secure, and is able to scale to the needs of the most demanding high-growth tech companies including Shopify, Pinterest, Wayfair, Cruise, PagerDuty, Culture Amp, and Canva.

Buildkite believes that small companies are beautiful and that small teams can achieve big things, making every member of the team an important part of the company.

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Eleanor

Software Engineer
Buildkite
Working at Buildkite has given me the freedom to grow and flourish in all aspects of my life, personally and professionally. I’m proud to be a part of such a passionate and supportive team.
A rewarding place to work, with great people who care about what they do and each other. You will need to wear a few hats, so you need to be OK with multitasking.

Employee @ Buildkite
Glassdoor Reviewer

A differently shaped company

Buildkite is a company that values work-life balance and supports its employees to work in ways that make sense for them. From the beginning, their goal has been to build a company that is people-centered, supportive, and a little bit unusual.

They offer flexible work hours, allowing employees to shift their hours around to accommodate personal commitments and non-work activities. In this small but growing company, employees have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects and ship work that benefits customers.

Engineering culture

The heart of Buildkite is a Ruby on Rails monolith built with an emphasis on simplicity, maintainability, and code quality. Engineers write tests and clear comments, balancing high quality standards with time-sensitivity and impact.

The team follows a pull-request based code review workflow and collaborates using Basecamp. The team writes infrastructure as code using Terraform and stores data using PostgreSQL. Buildkite values experience with AWS services like S3, RDS, Redshift, Glue, Athena and EMR.

Tech Stack Overview
Ruby/Rails
AWS
Go
JS/TS/Node.js

Team traits

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Bring the weird

Value and embrace what makes you different. A sense of play helps us find cool ways to surprise and delight our users.

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Be real with each other

Acknowledge the whole human, not just the role. Team members are honest about how they're going, and are willing to help each other.

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Empower others

Buildkite's teams are diverse, and its people are distributed — they're provided everything they need to do their best work.

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Maintain momentum

Continuous Delivery is all about shipping quickly and often, and we embody this in how we approach our work.

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Build it together

Magic happens when we collaborate directly with our customers, with our colleagues, and with our peers across the industry.

Benefits

Remote-first culture
Remote-first culture

Employees are encouraged to work in the way that best suits them.

6 months of paid leave for primary carers and 3 months for secondary carers
6 months of paid leave for primary carers and 3 months for secondary carers

This leave can be taken flexibly, and individuals can switch between primary and secondary carer status.

Learning and development budget
Learning and development budget

Yearly budget to invest in personal and professional development, which can be used for travel, conferences, workshops, courses, and books.

Home office & coworking budget
Home office & coworking budget

Buildkite provides employees with a budget to set up a comfortable work environment, whether at home or in a co-working space, including a desk and chair. They also provide a new computer and phone every 24 months.

Health cover
Health cover

The company ensures that employees and their families have access to comprehensive health and hospital coverage, regardless of where they live.

Wellness & extra time off
Wellness & extra time off

Buildkite encourages employees to take care of their health and well-being by offering 6 weeks of paid leave per year and allowing them to take time out of work for fitness. They also provide a yearly wellbeing budget.

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Engineering at Buildkite

Help the best software teams stay happy and productive.

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