Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Octopus Deploy's Backend Foundations Team as a Senior Software Engineer and contribute to the development of core components for Octopus Server. You will work on improving observability, consolidating abstractions, and enhancing feedback loops for engineers. The role involves collaborating with internal teams, automating tasks, and working in a 'you built it, you run it' culture. You'll be using C#, .NET, TypeScript, and React, and enjoy a remote-first environment with a transparent compensation system. Octopus offers a comprehensive benefits package including generous paid time off, parental leave, and stock options.

Requirements

• Have a firm grasp of the software trade using C#
• Be comfortable making good decisions with general concepts like dependency, extensibility, and compatibility
• Enjoy automating builds, tests, deployments, infrastructure, and operational tasks
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Be 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

Responsibilities

• Improve observability with trace telemetry (OpenTelemetry)
• Consolidate work abstractions
• Tighten feedback loops for engineers (improving build times)
• Further explore the modularity of our monolithic architecture and supporting patterns and guidance, so teams fall into the pit of success easily
• Improve testing techniques
• Work 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
• Change 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
• Handle an inbound support ticket from a customer, helping them succeed with Octopus, or offering advice to a customer in our community Slack workspace
• Pair 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
• Pair with another engineer on a Zoom call to solve a complex technical problem or design a new feature
• Fix a bug using an approach like red-green-refactor to prevent customers from experiencing that bug again
• Improve our documentation to help customers discover solutions for themselves and learn how to use Octopus for more complicated workflows
• Write a blog post about something interesting for other developers or explaining a new feature of Octopus

Preferred Qualifications

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

Benefits

• 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
• Stock options
• Remote work