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title: 'Developer Events Lead at Buildkite'
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# Developer Events Lead at Buildkite

- **Company:** Buildkite
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-08-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/buildkite/jobs/5387035008

## Job description

## About Buildkite

Buildkite's CI platform is trusted by the world's leading engineering teams, helping ship software used by more than 1 billion people every day. Companies including Canva, Meta, Mistral AI, and NVIDIA rely on Buildkite to run builds, tests, and deployments on their infrastructure, ours, or both - giving them the speed, reliability, and flexibility to ship with confidence.

## About the Role

As the Developer Events Lead you’ll shape where and how Buildkite shows up in the developer community, from conferences and meetups to workshops, sponsorships, and the events we create ourselves. Starting in the Bay Area, you’ll help decide where we invest, why we’re there, and what success looks like, with the opportunity to expand the program into other regions.

This is an end-to-end role. You’ll own the strategy, budget, partners, and systems behind our events program, working closely with GTM, Sales, and Brand to turn the right moments into meaningful relationships and business impact.

You’ll have the autonomy to experiment, learn, and build what works. We’re looking for someone who can spot the right opportunities, make a strong case for where Buildkite should show up, and dig into the results afterward, being clear about what worked, what didn’t, and what we should do differently next time.

## What you’ll do

Shape our events strategy

- Define where Buildkite shows up in field marketing, why, and how we measure success (think ROI).
- Build a clear framework for measuring event impact, enabling smarter investment decisions and connecting events to pipeline, brand, and community outcomes.
- Partner closely with Marketing, Sales, and GTM teams to prioritise opportunities, balance trade-offs, and maximise impact.
- Experiment with new event formats, partnerships, and community programs to continually improve how we engage developers.

Build a scalable program

- Create the budgets, vendor relationships, and operational playbooks that enable a high-quality, repeatable events program.
- Document processes and establish systems that allow the program to grow without increasing complexity.
- Continuously improve how we plan, execute, and evaluate events.

Deliver exceptional experiences

- Own flagship events end-to-end, from strategy and planning through execution and post-event analysis.
- Represent Buildkite to customers, community leaders, partners, sponsors, and industry stakeholders.
- Ensure every event reflects the quality of the Buildkite brand and creates meaningful value for attendees.

Lead through influence

- Share insights and learnings openly, using data to refine strategy and improve future programs.
- Partner effectively across teams and support contractors or external partners to deliver great outcomes.

This Is You If...

- You've developed and led an events, community, or field marketing strategy.
- You enjoy building scalable programs and repeatable systems, not just delivering individual events.
- You're comfortable working autonomously, making decisions, and bringing clarity to ambiguity.
- You can translate business goals into a practical execution plan and bring others along with you.
- You know how to measure the success of an event beyond attendance—connecting it to business and community outcomes.
- You build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, technical audiences, and community partners.
- You're interested in developer communities and understand what creates authentic engagement.
- You've created memorable experiences, whether that's a flagship event, conference activation, or community program.

Bonus Points If...

- You've built events or community programs from the ground up.
- You already have relationships within Bay Area (or other) developer communities and technology event networks.
- You've worked in or alongside Developer Relations.
- You've used ABM, intent data, or attribution frameworks to connect events with pipeline and revenue outcomes.

## Benefits

- Work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks a year, on top of a fully remote setup — great work doesn’t have to happen from one desk.
- 20 days paid annual leave plus 10 days sick & carer's leave — actively encouraged, we want you to be at your best and time off is a part of that.
- 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers (6 for secondary) — becoming a parent is life changing and we’re committed to supporting you and your family through it.
- A remote-work allowance for home-office kit, co-working, or working elsewhere — we want you to have everything you need to be set up for success in your role.
- Confidential EAP & mental health support — sometimes life gets hard. You should be able to access the resources and support you need.
- Support for learning and growth — with time and budget for conferences, courses, and coaching so you have the opportunity to grow, improve your craft, and build mastery.
- Retirement and health coverage (based on your region) — build towards your future, your way.

Exact benefits may vary slightly by country. We'll walk through the specifics for your location.

## Compensation

The base salary range for this role is $170,000–$190,000 USD. Compensation is determined based on geographic location, relevant experience, and qualifications.

What Happens Next

Every application gets a response. If this sounds like the way you already sell, apply, or reach out with questions first. 🌈 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 accommodations@buildkite.com.

## About Buildkite

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Buildkite provides a hybrid-cloud continuous integration (CI) and delivery platform that runs on customer-owned infrastructure, enabling fast, secure, and scalable software delivery.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Melbourne, Australia
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Keith Pitt, Tim Lucas, Lachlan Donald

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Developer Tools (CI/CD), DevOps, Software Delivery
- Target customers: B2B, serving engineering teams from startups to large enterprises (including OpenAI, Anthropic, Uber, Airbnb, Canva, Shopify, Block, Slack, Boston Dynamics, Reddit)
- Mission or purpose statement: "Unblock developer innovation across the globe."

## Products & Services
- **[Buildkite Pipelines]**: A hybrid CI/CD platform where the control plane runs in the cloud but build agents execute on the customer’s own infrastructure. Offers unlimited parallelism, dynamic pipelines, wait/block/trigger steps, LLM integrations, and conditional logic for complete workflow control.
- **[Buildkite Test Engine]**: A test analytics product that provides intelligent test splitting, performance insights, and real-time flaky test isolation to reduce wait times on slow test suites.
- **[Buildkite Package Registries]**: Native package and artifact management (acquired via Packagecloud in 2023) to secure the software supply chain and accelerate builds/deployments across any ecosystem.
- **[Buildkite Mobile Delivery Cloud]**: A preconfigured environment for accelerating mobile app deployment.
- **[Buildkite MCP Server]**: Connects AI tools to pipeline data with precision log access and token optimization.
- **[Agentic Workflow Components]**: Flexible components for building AI-powered workflows with complete control, including Universal Pipeline Triggers and flaky test routing to AI agents.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Over $200 million (as of CEO transition announcement, 2023/2024)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $41.7M (Series A: $28M led by OpenView with General Catalyst in 2020; Series B: $31M led by OneVentures and AirTree in 2022; plus earlier seed/angel rounds)
- **Annual Revenue**: Approximately $30.4M (LinkedIn estimate)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: OpenView, General Catalyst, OneVentures, AirTree Ventures
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Supports over 60,000 users from leading global software organizations.
    - Customers include OpenAI, Anthropic, Uber, Airbnb, Canva, Shopify, Block, Slack, Boston Dynamics, and Reddit.
    - In 2023, acquired Packagecloud to extend into native package and artifact management.
    - Headcount of 115 employees (as of mid-2025), with +3.6% monthly workforce growth and +22.6% yearly LinkedIn follower growth.
    - Reddit cut mobile CI build times by up to 50% using Buildkite; Rippling reduced CI/CD costs by 50% using AWS Spot Instances with Buildkite.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Hybrid Architecture**: A unique "control plane in the cloud, agents on customer infrastructure" model that offers flexibility and security, aging into a prescient position as competitors moved to fully managed, prescriptive runtimes.
- **Composability & Flexibility**: Provides "composable primitives" rather than a rigid platform, allowing teams to build workflows their way.
- **Performance**: Massive parallelization capabilities, with top 1,000 pipelines seeing a 90% reduction in build times (saving over 18,000 years of developer time in 2023).
- **Trusted by Tech Giants**: Serves some of the most demanding engineering organizations in the world (OpenAI, Anthropic, Uber, Airbnb, Canva, Shopify, Block).

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-Native Workflows**: Deepening AI integrations with MCP servers, LLM connectors, and agentic workflow components to meet the demands of AI-led development.
- **Platform Expansion**: Growing beyond core CI into test analytics, package management, and mobile delivery to become a comprehensive Scale-Out Delivery Platform.
- **Scaling the Team**: Actively hiring across engineering (Platform, ML, Security), sales, customer success, and developer relations, with a focus on senior and staff-level roles.
- **Global Reach**: Operating in 8 countries (Australia, United States, New Zealand, Canada, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Germany, Japan) with a fully remote team.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first since 2013**: A globally distributed team working from over 60 cities. No set office hours; flexible schedules to accommodate life commitments.
- **Small Team, Global Impact**: Emphasizes that small teams can achieve big things, with every employee being an important part of the company.
- **Growth Opportunities**: In a growing company (115 employees), employees work on a wide range of projects and ship work that directly impacts customers.
- **Engineering Culture**: Deeply technical, customer-first philosophy. The company values "Empower others," "Maintain momentum," and "Community." Trust is a core principle—teams get context and direction, then are trusted to make decisions.
- **Notable Perks**: Flexible work hours, ability to work from home, co-working spaces, or cat cafés. The interview process includes a "Craft Interview" focusing on productivity, team player, customer obsession, and curiosity.
- **Current Open Roles** (as of mid-2025): Engineering Manager - Platform, Escalations Engineer, Staff ML Engineer, Staff Security Engineer, VP of Engineering - Product, Senior Community Engineer, Staff Developer Relations Engineer, Staff Customer Success Manager, Technical Account Manager, Account Executive, Brand roles, and more.

## Sources
1. [Buildkite About Page](https://buildkite.com/about/company/)
2. [Buildkite Careers Page](https://buildkite.com/about/careers/)
3. [Buildkite Product Page](https://www.buildkite.com/)
4. [Buildkite LinkedIn Profile](https://au.linkedin.com/company/buildkite)
5. [Buildkite Jobs on Greenhouse](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/buildkite/jobs/5121800008)

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