Staff Developer Advocate
Core
Staff Developer Advocate serving as the human interface to strategy, acting as a technical educator, advocate, and signal-capture engine to accelerate adoption and anchor Buildkite's narrative.
Role type
Staff Developer Advocate (DevRel)
Builds
Dev-first demand engine, public technical artifacts, learning paths, and durable advocacy pathways for CI/CD workflows.
Domain
DevOps / CI/CD / Developer Tools
Deliverable
product features
Required skills
Technical credibility in CI/CD systems, public judgment, technical communication, experience designing scalable education loops, ability to capture and route user signals, partnership with Product/Support/Brand teams.
Preferred skills
Deep CI/CD or DevOps experience, OSS contributions, experience supporting enterprise evaluation and migration, event programming collaboration, building agentic tooling for DevRel.
Technologies
CI/CD platforms, workflow automation tools.
Responsibilities
Own campaign execution across priority pillars from concept to launch; teach CI concepts and Buildkite workflows to engineers; design learning paths that reduce time-to-first-value; partner with customers to share technical war stories; co-create distributable technical proof with Content Engineering; collect and categorize developer questions and objections to route to product owners; identify and nurture community champions; operate education, signal, proof, and adoption loops to compound organizational knowledge.
Seniority
Staff, high-impact IC with strategic influence
