Software Engineer

Octopus Deploy sets the standard for Continuous Delivery, empowering software teams to deliver value in an agile way. Over 4,000 organizations globally – including Ubisoft, Xero, Stack Overflow, NASA, and Disney – rely on our Continuous Delivery, GitOps, and release orchestration solutions.

If you join Octopus, you'll become a part of a high-trust, remote-first, and value-driven culture.

Elevate Octopus Server with Your Expertise

This role is part of the Backend Foundations Team, which develops the building blocks of Octopus Server. Our customers are other internal teams that develop against Octopus Server, who choose to rely on these building blocks for simple, reliable and performant foundations.

We are looking for a Software Engineer with experience in developing strong foundations that support software teams. Our current roadmap is focused on several areas including: improving observability with trace telemetry; removing bottlenecks for horizontally scaling workloads; tightening feedback loops for engineers (improving build times); further exploring the modularity of our monolithic architecture and supporting patterns and guidance, so teams fall into the pit of success easily.

If you are excited by challenges like improving testing techniques and tightening feedback loops, we want you on our team

• You have a firm grasp of the software trade using C#.
• You are comfortable making good decisions with general concepts like dependency, extensibility, and compatibility, and perhaps you are a specialist in a specific area of software engineering.
• You enjoy automating builds, tests, deployments, infrastructure, and operational tasks.
• You enjoy working in a "you built it, you run it" culture, where teams take pride in the quality of their work and the availability of their systems, with many people joining our humane on-call program.
• You can work independently, motivating yourself to do high-quality work on time and communicating with your teammates when you need help or are ready for something new.
• You enjoy collaborating with other people to solve problems, challenging each other to discover the best solution for a problem using a balance of passion, pragmatism, and empathy.
• You are a results-oriented person, focused on iteratively delivering valuable things to your customers, willingly changing direction based on clear and transparent business information, and someone who helps others do the same.

• You like a balance of freedom and responsibility, being treated as an adult.
• You want to do the best work of your life with other like-minded people.
• You enthusiastically accept radically candid feedback; that is thoughtful, timely, and directly actionable, and you offer the same benefit to others.
• You enjoy solving complex distributed computing, automation, security, performance, and usability problems.
• You like working with great tools like the latest versions of C#, .NET, TypeScript, and React, in the development environment of your choice.
• You like working with customers directly, helping them succeed with Octopus, even if success is elusive.
• You enjoy doing things the right way from the very beginning knowing you are working on a valuable asset.

• Working where you work best, in a home office designed by you, using a device of your choosing, with or without music, in an atmosphere you create for yourself.
• Changing source code hosted in GitHub, most of it in the open, collaborating on a pull request, then shipping a release to customers worldwide via an automated build, test, and delivery pipeline, often within the same day.
• Handling an inbound support ticket from a customer, helping them succeed with Octopus, or offering advice to a customer in our community Slack workspace.
• Pairing with another software engineer or a support engineer to help them reproduce a tricky problem, helping them understand the inner workings of Octopus in the process so they can be more helpful to even more customers over time.
• Pairing with another engineer on a Zoom call to solve a complex technical problem or design a new feature.
• Fixing a bug using an approach like red-green-refactor to prevent customers from experiencing that bug again.
• Improving our documentation to help customers discover solutions for themselves and learn how to use Octopus for more complicated workflows.
• Writing a blog post about something interesting for other developers or explaining a new feature of Octopus.

Compensation:

Octopus has an internally open and transparent system for compensation. Any Octonaut can view the compensation for any role at any level. This ensures people doing the same work with the same skill get paid the same.

The compensation for this role is:

Level 2 (Intermediate): Maturing: $115k AUD / $125k NZD, Performing: $135k AUD / $145k NZD

Salaries exclude Super and KiwiSaver.

Benefits include a minimum of 25 days annual leave, up to 10 days of paid sick and carers leave, 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave with flexible return options, and stock options. Learn more.

Below is the interview process you can expect for this role. We know interviewing can seem daunting, but rest assured we designed our interview process to move quickly while still getting you all the information you need.

Initial chat

[30 min] Talent acquisition screen: Meet with your Talent Acquisition team and get a feel for what it would be like to be an Octonaut

Take-Home Challenge

[2-4 hours] Technical assessment: Complete a bespoke technical challenge at your own pace. This is evaluated by our Software Engineers to determine if we progress to the Live Code interview

‍Live Code Interview

[75 min] Live Code Interview: Discuss your solution with two of our Software Engineers. Pair program to extend your solution in the final 15 minutes.