Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join Octopus Deploy as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and contribute to the reliability of our systems. You will use your SRE skills to maintain high system reliability, improve existing practices, introduce new ideas, and spearhead implementations. Share your expertise with other teams and work in a remote-first environment. This role requires full working rights and residency in Australia or New Zealand. The ideal candidate excels in environments focused on availability, reliability, and observability, and has a passion for automation. Compensation includes a competitive salary, benefits, and stock options.

Requirements

• The way of working outlined here (https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/People/tree/main/Engineering/Site-Reliability-Engineering) is your natural way of getting things done
• You excel in an environment focused on availability, reliability, and observability
• You are skilled in systems engineering and may have specialized expertise in specific areas
• You find value in applying safety culture lessons from other industries to your work
• You are adept at leading postmortems and designing deployment and monitoring pipelines
• You have a passion for automating builds, tests, deployments, infrastructure, and operational tasks
• You embrace a "you built it, you run it" culture, with a commitment to quality and system availability, participating in a humane on-call program
• You are self-motivated, work independently with high-quality output, and seek help or new tasks when needed
• You collaborate effectively to solve problems, combining passion, pragmatism, and empathy
• You are results-oriented, adaptive to business direction changes, and encourage the same approach in others
• You thrive on candid feedback, solving complex problems, and helping fellow engineers succeed while working on valuable projects

Responsibilities

• Use their SRE skills to keep systems running with high reliability
• Help improve and iterate our existing reliability practices
• Bring new ideas/practices to increase reliability and reduce toil
• Spearhead implementation of new capabilities
• Share SRE expertise with other teams in the company

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