VP of Engineering - Product
Core
Lead five product teams to scale Buildkite's CI/CD platform for AI agents and high-concurrency workloads, ensuring delivery quality and technical direction during rapid growth.
Role type
VP of Engineering - Product
Builds
CI/CD platform supporting AI agents, massive concurrency, and stateful guarantees for enterprise customers.
Domain
Software Engineering / DevOps / AI Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Product thinking, technical decision-making, scaling engineering teams, managing managers, strategic trade-offs, high-velocity execution
Preferred skills
Founder energy, deep technical taste, ability to work in ambiguity, experience with small teams delivering outsized results
Technologies
Ruby on Rails, React, GraphQL, Go, PostgreSQL
Responsibilities
Set trade-offs across five product teams, coach EMs and grow Staff/Principal engineers, partner with product leadership on strategy, act as engineering voice to executives and customers
Seniority
Executive, hands-on leadership
