Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Octopus Deploy's Product Growth team as a Software Engineer and contribute to building features that enhance user experience and accelerate value discovery. Collaborate with a team of engineers, product managers, and designers on projects aimed at simplifying Octopus adoption. You will work on a variety of tasks, from developing and deploying code to handling customer support and improving documentation. The role offers a remote-first environment with flexible work arrangements and a transparent compensation system. Benefits include generous paid time off, parental leave, and stock options. Octopus Deploy values a collaborative and supportive work culture.

Requirements

• Have a firm grasp of the software trade using any language or toolset, preferably C# and TypeScript
• Be 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
• 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

• Work on a broad range of product-led projects that make Octopus easier to adopt, like Preconfigured Sample Project and Improve deployment step selection
• Help break down and deliver projects and collaborate with your team to measure their impact and success using data and metrics
• 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

• 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 you 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

• 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
• Stock options
• Remote work