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.
Founded in Australia in 2012, our team of over 300 Octonauts now spans the globe. We combine high growth and big ambitions with a sustainable, balanced working environment. Our revenue has grown consistently between 20–50% every year for the past 9 years, and we've been profitable for 10 out of the past 12 years. Octopus now provides the industry's most comprehensive Continuous Delivery solution for organizations operating at scale.
We've been remote-first since 2015 and work with an uncommon level of transparency. You can read our public handbook to learn how we work. We have a transparent approach to compensation that ensures people doing the same work with the same skill get paid the same, with well-defined career pathways. We foster a supportive, collaborative, and high-trust environment. We leave our job titles at the door and focus on doing what's best for our customers and team. Our leaders never shy away from answering the tough questions at our all-hands calls or in 1:1s. We conduct interviews and onboarding virtually as part of being a remote-first company.
This role is part of theCloud Platformteam, which owns the Cloud Portal,Dynamic Workers, and cloud infrastructure. Our mission is to provide best-in-class cloud environments for Octopus Cloud customers.
We're looking for aSoftware Engineer (Level 2). Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you'll join a team of up to 10 engineers, plus a Principal Engineer and Product Manager, distributed across Australia and New Zealand for easier time zone collaboration.
As a Software Engineer, you'll take ownership of smaller pieces of work while learning how to operate production systems safely, with support from your teammates. Our public roadmap has examples of work this team hasreleased ,planned, and isconsidering next .
This is a remote role based inAustraliaorNew Zealand; we are unable to sponsor work visas at this time.
Why this job is exciting
* Contribute to the future of deployment automation, with peers who value helping each other over solo heroics
* Build reliability and operational improvements through code (C#), with a software engineering mindset
* Spend time on automation: builds, tests, deployments, infrastructure, and operational tasks
* Grow your career with your manager through a development plan aligned to your goals
What you'll do
* Help manage and improve Azure infrastructure so it scales reliably and stays cost-effective
* Contribute to the internal Cloud Portal and custom modules in C#, shipping changes safely and incrementally
* Support customers and internal teams via incident response, troubleshooting, and follow-up improvements that reduce repeat issues
* Work with Azure (AKS, SQL, Storage Accounts, Azure Functions, and other services), Terraform, and Kubernetes as part of a team
Must-haves
* Experience delivering production-quality code with support and review (C# strongly preferred)
* Comfort working on tasks and small projects, communicating progress and risks early
* You enjoy automating builds, tests, deployments, infrastructure, and operational tasks
* You work well in a "you built it, you run it" culture with guidance from senior engineers
* You collaborate kindly and directly: you ask for help when blocked and share what you learn
Nice-to-haves
* Experience with Azure services, Terraform, Kubernetes, and/or Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
* Prior exposure to incident management, on-call, SRE/DevOps practices, or customer-support environments
* You apply concepts likedependencyandextensibilitywith support from your team.
A typical day might also include
* Reviewing a pull request, shipping a change, and seeing it reach customers via an automated pipeline
* Handling an inbound support ticket and following up with an improvement that prevents recurrence
* Pairing with another engineer to reproduce a tricky issue and document the outcome
* Fixing a bug with tests (e.g., red-green-refactor) to prevent regressions
* Improving documentation so customers and teammates can self-serve
On-call (paid, supported, and humane)
This role includes joining ourpaid on-call program (5% of base salary)once you're confident in our systems,typically after 3 to 4 monthsof onboarding, with training and documentation provided. On-call coverage is24×7, and teams usually roster no more than ~2 weeks in every 8 per person.
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.
[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!
[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
[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.
Compensation:
Level 2 (Intermediate):Maturing: $115k AUD / $125k NZD, Performing: $135k AUD / $145k NZD
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. 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, generous health care (100% individuals, 75% dependents), dental and vision, 401K matching, pension contributions of up to 5%, and stock options. Learn more .
If you're enthusiastic about this position, even if you don't meet all the criteria above, we wholeheartedly encourage you to submit your application. Our talent team is in-house, and we recognize that every individual brings something unique. We take the time to review every application and consider how you might add to the team.
We know your time is precious. If you apply, we promise to update you at least once per week about the status of your application and to give you clear expectations for each step in the journey.
If you join Octopus, you'll be joining a high trust ,remote-first team that helps over 150,000 peoplearound the world to deliver working software to production.
We've been around since 2012 and we're used by over 25,000 companies, including ASOS, Xero, StackOverflow, NASA and Disney.
Growing, sustainable company
We're profitable and long-term oriented. And yet we're growing quickly .It's a unique opportunity to join a growing company without all the craziness. With that growth comes allkinds of opportunities for career progression and professional and personal development.
What to expect
What's it really like here? We've made our internal handbook public, so you can see for yourself. It will answer many of the questions you might have.
Trust and autonomy to do the best work of your life, in work that makes a meaningful difference.
Along with a pro-active salary review and feedback system.Learn more .
As we grow, new opportunities to learn, advance and contribute are continuously opening.
Laptop & home office
Choose your own laptop and home office program.Learn more .
Excellent health care, dental and vision.(US only)
Retirement
Work/life harmony
No crazy hours or arbitrary deadlines.
Paid parental leave for primary & secondary carers.
Don't see a role you're interested in?
If you share our core values but none of the roles above seem quite right, but you think you can bring something unique that might help,we'd love to hear from you. Just talk to us .
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