Forward Deployed Engineer

Buildkite's CI platform is trusted by the world's leading engineering teams, helping ship software used by more than 1 billion people every day. Companies including Canva, Meta, Mistral AI, and NVIDIA rely on Buildkite to run builds, tests, and deployments on their infrastructure, ours, or both - giving them the speed, reliability, and flexibility to ship with confidence.

Our largest customers run CI/CD at frontier scale. AI is driving their build and test workloads up sharply, and more of these large, established companies want a partner to come in and build alongside them so they can grow and scale even faster.

What you'll do:

• Work through the customer's reality and scope engagements before the deal closes: partnering with Solution Architects and TAMs to dig into what stands between a customer and Buildkite, identifying true gaps.
• Turn true gaps into defined engagements: a clear deliverable, an estimate, and exit criteria that the customer and Buildkite both sign off on, then keep the work inside that scope as new asks come up.
• Build core platform features, held to the same bar (and using the same frontier tools) as our product engineers. Then hand off cleanly to Product and Engineering so what you build becomes a supported part of Buildkite, benefitting all customers.
• Help Solutions Architects and Account Executives recognize FDE opportunities in their deals and explain what FDE is (and isn't) in plain terms, especially as we build the role together through iteration on engagements.

Full details and application on the official Buildkite careers page.