diff --git a/.buildkite/pipeline.yaml b/.buildkite/pipeline.yaml
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index 000000000..9f44877fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.buildkite/pipeline.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+steps:
+  - command:
+    - "go build ./cmd/..."
+    label: ":hammer-and-wrench: Build / :go: 1.11"
+    env:
+      GOGC: "400"
+      DENDRITE_LINT_DISABLE_GC: "1"
+    plugins:
+      - docker#v3.0.1:
+        image: "golang:1.11-alpine"
+
+  - command:
+    - "go test ./..."
+    label: ":female-scientist: Unit tests / :go: 1.11"
+    env:
+      GOGC: "400"
+      DENDRITE_LINT_DISABLE_GC: "1"
+    plugins:
+      - docker#v3.0.1:
+        image: "golang:1.11-alpine"
+
+  - command:
+    - "go build ./cmd/..."
+    label: ":hammer-and-wrench: Build / :go: 1.12"
+    env:
+      GOGC: "400"
+      DENDRITE_LINT_DISABLE_GC: "1"
+    plugins:
+      - docker#v3.0.1:
+        image: "golang:1.12-alpine"
+
+  - command:
+    - "go test ./..."
+    label: ":female-scientist: Unit tests / :go: 1.12"
+    env:
+      GOGC: "400"
+      DENDRITE_LINT_DISABLE_GC: "1"
+    plugins:
+      - docker#v3.0.1:
+        image: "golang:1.12-alpine"
+
+  - command:
+    - "./scripts/find-lint.sh"
+    label: ":lower_left_crayon: Lint / :go: 1.12"
+    env:
+      GOGC: "400"
+      DENDRITE_LINT_DISABLE_GC: "1"
+    plugins:
+      - docker#v3.0.1:
+        image: "golang:1.12-alpine"
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
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--- a/.travis.yml
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@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-language: go
-go:
- - 1.11.x
- - 1.12.x
-
-env:
-- TEST_SUITE="lint"
-- TEST_SUITE="unit-test"
-- TEST_SUITE="integ-test"
-
-sudo: false
-
-# Use trusty for postgres 9.5 support
-dist: trusty
-
-addons:
-  postgresql: "9.5"
-
-services:
-  - postgresql
-
-cache:
-  directories:
-    - .downloads
-
-script:
- - ./scripts/travis-test.sh
-
-# we only need the latest git commit
-git:
-  depth: 1
diff --git a/scripts/travis-test.sh b/scripts/travis-test.sh
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index c2a5f221f..000000000
--- a/scripts/travis-test.sh
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@@ -1,86 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/bash
-
-# The entry point for travis tests
-#
-# TEST_SUITE env var can be set to "lint", "unit-test" or "integ-test", in
-# which case only the linting, unit tests or integration tests will be run
-# respectively. If not specified or null all tests are run.
-
-set -eu
-
-# Tune the GC to use more memory to reduce the number of garbage collections
-export GOGC=400
-export DENDRITE_LINT_DISABLE_GC=1
-
-export GO111MODULE=on
-
-# starts a travis fold section. The first argument is the name of the fold
-# section (which appears on the RHS) and may contain no spaces. Remaining
-# arguments are echoed in yellow on the LHS as the header line of the fold
-# section.
-travis_sections=()
-function travis_start {
-    name="$1"
-    shift
-    echo -en "travis_fold:start:$name\r"
-    travis_sections+=($name)
-
-    # yellow/bold
-    echo -en "\e[33;1m"
-    echo "$@"
-    # normal
-    echo -en "\e[0m"
-}
-
-# ends a travis fold section
-function travis_end {
-    name=${travis_sections[-1]}
-    unset 'travis_sections[-1]'
-    echo -en "travis_fold:end:$name\r"
-}
-
-function kill_kafka {
-    echo "killing kafka"
-    # sometimes kafka doesn't die on a SIGTERM so we SIGKILL it.
-    killall -9 -v java
-}
-
-if [ "${TEST_SUITE:-lint}" == "lint" ]; then
-    ./scripts/find-lint.sh
-fi
-
-if [ "${TEST_SUITE:-unit-test}" == "unit-test" ]; then
-    go test ./...
-fi
-
-if [ "${TEST_SUITE:-integ-test}" == "integ-test" ]; then
-    travis_start go-build "Building dendrite and integ tests"
-    go install ./cmd/...
-    travis_end
-    
-    # Check that all the packages can build.
-    # When `go build` is given multiple packages it won't output anything, and just
-    # checks that everything builds.
-    go build ./cmd/...
-
-    # Create necessary certificates and keys to run dendrite
-    travis_start certs "Building SSL certs"
-    openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:512 -keyout server.key -out server.crt -days 365 -nodes -subj /CN=localhost
-    travis_end
-
-    travis_start kafka "Installing kafka"
-    ./scripts/install-local-kafka.sh
-    travis_end
-
-    # make sure we kill off zookeeper/kafka on exit, because it stops the
-    # travis container being cleaned up (cf
-    # https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/8082)
-    trap kill_kafka EXIT
-
-    # Run the integration tests
-    for i in roomserver syncserver mediaapi; do
-        travis_start "$i-integration-tests" "Running integration tests for $i"
-        $i-integration-tests
-        travis_end
-    done
-fi