VP of Engineering - Product

What we do in the next twelve months will define Buildkite's future — and in this role, you'll be in the front seat to make it happen. AI has changed how software gets built — our customers are running more agents, more builds, more concurrency than ever. Workloads doubled in the last three months on an already large base, and customers are asking us to support 5–10x growth this year. Put plainly: right now they're scaling faster than we can keep up, and closing that gap is the job. It's the most epic pace of software engineering most people will ever see. We're looking for someone with founder energy to lead the teams building it. 🔧 The problem worth solving Buildkite runs continuously. It can't be paused, and partial failure is a normal operating condition. The systems carry stateful guarantees for the companies pushing the most code on the planet — Uber, OpenAI, Shopify, Airbnb, Canva, Pinterest, and most of the frontier AI labs. Migrations, rollouts, reversibility, live operations: real engineering problems with real consequences. Most of our competitors weren't architected for this moment — hybrid, massive concurrency, AI-scale workloads. We were, and customers feel the difference in every build. You'd lead five product teams, each at a different stage of maturity. Working with your EMs and the wider leadership group, you'll set the trade-offs across the portfolio and translate the vision into something each team can run with. AI agents will soon be a big share of what's pushing code through Buildkite; part of the fun is working out together how to help those agents live their best lives. 🚀 What you'll own Reporting to our CTO and co-founder, you'll be accountable for the pace, quality, and impact of everything these teams ship — and for growing the managers and technical leaders who run them. That means holding a high bar for delivery and technical decision-making across all five teams; coaching your EMs and growing Staff and Principal engineers into broader