Senior Solution Engineer, Buildkite
Automation & collaboration tools
Open for applications
Automation & collaboration tools
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build tools to help the best software teams stay happy and productive.
Role
Who you are
- Strong knowledge in CI/CD tools such as Buildkite, Jenkins, CircleCI or GitLab
- Experience with Devops technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform
- A passion to want to learn new build technologies such as Bazel, Gradle, iOS
- Expertise in Cloud technologies - AWS and GCP preferred
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to uncover the important details, identify and develop solutions to customer needs
- Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Strong teamwork and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams
What the job involves
- As a Solutions Engineer at Buildkite, you will be responsible for uncovering customer problems and providing hands-on technical expertise by designing and demonstrating solutions to current and potential customers.
- You will work closely with the sales, customer success and product engineering teams to recommend and develop solutions that meet the needs of each customer
- Work with our Sales team to identify and qualify business opportunities that align with Buildkite's product offerings
- Build and present demonstrations and PoCs (proofs of concept) that showcase the capabilities of Buildkite's software to potential customers
- Upskill our Sales team’s technical knowledge and provide them with market guidance
- Provide technical support during POCs to facilitate ease of onboarding
- Lead “lift and shift” projects for customers transitioning to Buildkite
- Collaborate with customers to understand their CI/CD architecture and business processes to identify areas where Buildkite Can improve their workflows and their lives
- Work with the Product Engineering team to share and interpret feedback from customers and ensure that product features align with customer needs
- Stay up-to-date on industry trends, new technologies, and emerging best practices in software development and delivery
- Participate in industry events, conferences (such as AWS re:Invent) and other sales and marketing activities to promote our solutions and services and understand market needs
- Assist the sales team in closing deals by providing technical expertise and addressing customer concerns
- Demonstrate value by storytelling, guiding customers through validation that we have the right solution for their business and technical software delivery challenges
Our take
With researchers predicting that the CI/CD tools (delivery software automation tools) market will grow by 18% by 2031, now is a better time than any for companies like Buildkite to find clients. Founded in Australia in 2014, Buildkite is well placed to find delivery company clients in the 2020s from its huge landmass and export home country Australia.
Buildkite design tools and platforms for eCommerce, communications, and delivery companies as large as Shopify and Intercom. In 2022, it was awarded $21 million in Series B which it plans to use to develop new products. This is off the back of the success of its Test Analytics tool which can help test the reliability of test suites for developers.
Buildkite still has some tricks up its sleeve and continues to develop new suites of products for software clients, showing that it is a still-relevant company amidst a lot of competition.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2022
$21m
SERIES B
Aug 2020
$17.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $38.7m
Company benefits
- Yearly budget to spend on travel, conferences, workshops, courses, and books
- Comprehensive health and hospital cover
- 6 months of paid leave if you’re the primary carer, and 3 months if you’re secondary (you can use it flexibly, change between primary and secondary, and take the same leave for a still birth)
- Budget for a desk and chair, and a new computer as well as any other tech
- Co-working budget
- 6 weeks of paid leave per year
- Take time out of work for fitness
- Yearly budget to spend on things like yoga, climbing, personal training, or a day at the zoo
Company values
- Bring the weird: We value and embrace what makes us different
- Be real with each other: We acknowledge the whole human, not just the role
- Empower others: Our teams are diverse, and our people are distributed - we provide everything they need to do their best work
- Maintain momentum: Continuous Delivery is all about shipping quickly and often, and we embody this in how we approach our work
- Build it together - Magic happens when we collaborate directly with our customers, with our colleagues, and with our peers across the industry
Company HQ
CBD, Melbourne, VIC
Articles
Leadership
Keith Pitt
(CEO)Previously Software Developer at Pin Payments,Senior Developer at Envato, Co-Founder at Desktoppr, Software Developer at Hooroo.
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