Senior Design Engineer, Product

Buildkite is on a mission to unblock every developer on the planet by providing a fast, reliable, and secure software delivery platform. The Senior Design Engineer, Product will be responsible for creating a cohesive platform experience by combining user insights, design quality, and frontend engineering, while collaborating with various teams to enhance the developer experience.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the Buildkite product forward with high standards for ideation and execution
• Work collaboratively, transparently, and with the kind of craft engineers respect
• Design and build prototypes that go beyond static files
• Entwine design and experience early: real interactions, real workflows, real dogfooding
• Close the gap between concept and shipped product
• Contribute to our Design Engineering and front-end workflows, tools, and best practices
• Support these practices as meaningful levers for business impact
• Work embedded in a centralised Design team to bring the Buildkite identity to life
• Build a living system across touchpoints
• Ensure the product feels cohesive, intentional, and unmistakably Buildkite
• Collaborate beyond Product and Engineering: Support, Sales, Marketing, and beyond
• Ensure our DX is consistent and delightful end-to-end
• Speak directly with customer teams large and small
• Translate insights into improvements, and push the platform forward with good intuition

Requirements:

• Experience working within SaaS as a Product Designer or Design Engineer
• Standard design tooling experience and capability; we use Figma/Figjam though are becoming more code-first
• Documented experience working with React, Tailwind, Vite and other front-end frameworks
• Proven ability to tackle complex problem-solving, together or individually
• Proven ability to give and receive constructive feedback and critique in an open, candid environment
• Proven ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to both customers and non-technical stakeholders across the business
• High empathy and effective communication skills. As a remote-first team, we value deep work, try to minimise tool distraction, and collaborate constantly as a high-trust small team
• Rails experience
• Understanding of DevOps field and related DevTools space
• Knowledge of CI/CD or related developer tools (curiosity and willingness to learn matter just as much)
• Use of AI in process isn't mandated, though we'll ask about it to understand your PoV