Senior Design Engineer, Web

Buildkite

7d•Remote

About The Position

This is a rare “own the whole surface” web role: the chance to run Buildkite’s most visible experience end-to-end, turning brand and product narrative into a fast, beautiful, scalable website. This newly created role in our Brand team exists to make our web presence fast, elegant, differentiated, and durable; a system that can evolve with our story, showcase real proof, and ship new pages and content without painful rebuilds or fragile hacks. You’ll own the craft at the intersection of design quality and production-grade frontend engineering, collaborating across the company from product to sales to support and back again.

Requirements

Experience extending brand systems across a modern web presence
Experience with design tooling such as Figma, Sketch, or similar
Strong frontend engineering background with frameworks such as Astro, Next, Tailwind, or equivalent
Familiarity with the DevTools and the DevOps ecosystem,understanding what credibility looks like for technical audiences
Proven ability to tackle complex problem-solving, independently or collaboratively
Clear communication skills; able to explain technical decisions to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
High empathy and strong async collaboration instincts in a remote-first environment

Nice To Haves

Experience with AWS S3, CDNs, Brotli, or modern web delivery infrastructure
Familiarity with experimentation, analytics, and web performance tooling
Deep understanding of CI concepts and modern developer workflows

Responsibilities

Own the Buildkite website and CMS end-to-end
Own the full web experience: information architecture, layout and design, frontend implementation, performance, accessibility, and ongoing quality
Ensure the website remains a credible, differentiated, product-grade experience that reflects Buildkite’s standards
Build a component-driven system that scales
Design and build a reusable component system that stays on-brand and supports new pages, products, and content types
Establish patterns that make shipping fast while maintaining craft and consistency
Define and maintain the web platform stack
Collaborate and lead on the direction of the website stack: framework, styling, build tooling, CI, hosting, analytics, and experimentation
Set pragmatic standards that keep the platform modern, maintainable, and resilient over time
Evolve CMS integration and publishing workflows
Improve how content ships across the org, with safe guardrails and governance
Build preview environments, validations, reusable modules, and publishing standards that enable broader teams to contribute confidently
Translate Buildkite’s identity into a living system
Work embedded in a centralised Brand team to bring typography, motion, interaction patterns, theming, and responsiveness to life
Ensure Buildkite’s design language is expressed consistently across the web surface
Partner across the company as the web craft owner
Collaborate with every org function to ensure the end-to-end Buildkite experience is cohesive, coherent, and compelling
Align stakeholders while protecting quality, performance, and long-term maintainability
Establish a sustainable operating model
Build monitoring, performance budgets, accessibility checks, search hygiene, and documentation
Create regular reporting and operational cadence
Run a Web OS that compounds
You’ll operate with a cadence that scales beyond you - building a web platform that gets sharper, faster, and more undeniable every time we ship:
Craft loop: interaction, motion, typography; the details engineers feel
System loop: components and patterns that make new pages inevitable, not bespoke
Performance loop: speed, accessibility, SEO, reliability; always product-grade
Publishing loop: CMS guardrails so the org can ship without breaking the surface
Proof loop: repeatable launches and pages that turn Buildkite’s reality into receipts
Trust loop: simple metrics that show the site compounding, not drifting
Represent Buildkite through the web with authority and taste
Treat the website as our most visible brand experience, not a brochure
Craft a domain that engineers respect in their bones
Shape what “good” looks like for Buildkite on the modern web