Senior Solutions Architect, Buildkite
$150-185k
+ Equity
Automation & collaboration tools
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Automation & collaboration tools
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$150-185k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build tools to help the best software teams stay happy and productive.
Role
Who you are
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Buildkite, Jenkins, CircleCI, AWS CodePipelines, Azure Pipelines, GitLab, etc
- Experience with DevOps technologies encompassing containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- A passion for learning new build technologies such as Bazel, Kubernetes, iOS development tools, etc
- Expertise with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, and Azure
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify customer needs and design tailored solutions
- A curious and consultative approach; a strong gut feel to identify the things that really matter, and an ability and confidence to focus on them
- Experience working in fast-paced, dynamic environments managing multiple priorities
- Strong teamwork and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across Sales, Product, and Solutions teams
What the job involves
- This is a highly collaborative, customer-facing role that combines hands-on technical skills with strategic problem-solving, creativity, influence, and a consultative approach
- You’ll work closely with Sales, Technical Services, Product Management, Product Marketing, and Engineering to deliver technical expertise, architect impactful solutions for prospective and existing customers, and shape the future of our product and industry
- You’ll uncover the core challenges of platform engineering teams, design solutions using our flexible, extensive, and highly scalable platform, and stand on virtual and real stages as you demonstrate your solutions, approach, and thought leadership
- You’ll have the weight of Buildkite at your back as you guide internal and external stakeholders deftly through the technical validation process, and you’ll move the industry forward as a result
- Partner with Sales to identify business opportunities aligned with our platform
- Collaborate with customers to understand their CI/CD architecture and workflows, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and outcomes
- Design and deliver engaging demonstrations to showcase our capabilities
- Work prospects through technical proofs-of-concept to secure the technical win
- Advise customers how to migrate from their existing solutions to Buildkite’s uniquely differentiated platform including our dynamic pipeline approach
- Act as a technical liaison between customers and Product Engineering, sharing tactical and strategic feedback to shape the future of the products and platform
- Stay up to date on emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in CI/CD and software delivery (which you’ll influence)
- Use storytelling to demonstrate value and guide customers through validating Buildkite as the right solution for their business and technical needs
- Educate the Sales team to strengthen their product knowledge and market positioning
- Represent Buildkite at industry events and conferences large and small to build awareness, create excitement, and simply engage with the dev & ops communities
- Close sales deals and celebrate wins you’ve achieved by leveraging your consultative technical expertise to showing customers their bright future with Buildkite
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
43% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2022
$21m
SERIES B
Aug 2020
$19.8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $41m
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 HQ
CBD, Melbourne, VIC
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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