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Senior Test Engine Engineer

BuildkiteAustralia, New Zealand
On-site Full-time

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Experience Level

Mid to Senior

Qualifications

Qualifications3-5 years of experience in software engineering. Experience designing, developing, and delivering technology products in technical environments. Strong collaboration and communication skills. Ability to understand customer needs and translate them into technical solutions.

About the job

About Buildkite

At Buildkite, our vision is to empower every developer worldwide. We have revolutionized software delivery through a platform that is not only fast and reliable but also secure and scalable, catering to the needs of the world's leading high-growth tech companies like Airbnb, Shopify, Canva, PagerDuty, Lyft, and Pinterest.

Job Overview

In this role, you will play a crucial part in designing, developing, and scaling tools that enable some of the finest software engineering teams globally. You will work collaboratively with engineers, designers, and product managers to implement impactful features and enhancements, tackling challenges at the intersection of developer experience, scalability, and performance.

This role is highly collaborative and hands-on, allowing you to contribute to product development, influence architectural decisions, and help shape the future of Buildkite's platform.

About the Team

The Test Engine team focuses on making test suites more affordable, faster, and reliable, alleviating friction in developers' daily tasks, and enhancing their productivity and job satisfaction. We achieve this by identifying and isolating flaky tests, providing tools for suite parallelization to minimize build times, and offering insights into suite trends over time, alongside deep dives into individual test executions.

What You’ll Do

  • Collaborate with the engineering team to develop new features or improvements that address real customer challenges.
  • Design and implement features that balance speed and quality—prioritizing shipping over perfection while ensuring problem resolution.
  • Take ownership of critical components of the existing stack, ensuring alignment with customer expectations while exploring new technologies to address emerging challenges.
  • Engage with customers to thoroughly understand their issues, making their challenges your own to devise effective solutions.
  • Utilize your software engineering experience to inform product and design decisions.
  • Work together with the team to tackle complex problems, share knowledge across various technologies, and support one another in achieving optimal solutions.

What You Bring

  • 3-5 years of engineering experience.
  • Proven expertise in designing, building, and delivering technology products in highly technical settings, such as developer tools.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset.

About Buildkite

Buildkite is at the forefront of software delivery innovation, dedicated to unblocking developers worldwide. Our platform empowers the most demanding tech companies, ensuring fast, reliable, and secure delivery of software solutions.

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