Octopus Deploy is hiring a
Software Engineer

Summary

The job description is for a Software Engineer position at Octopus Deploy, a remote-first company that provides Continuous Delivery solutions. The team is the Fire & Motion team and the role involves working on projects like Deployment Freezes and Bulk Approval for Manual Interventions.

Requirements

• You have a firm grasp of the software trade using C# and TypeScript
• You are comfortable making good decisions with general concepts like dependency, extensibility, and compatibility
• You enjoy automating builds, tests, deployments, infrastructure, and operational tasks
• You enjoy working in a 'you built it, you run it' culture
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• The compensation for this role is: Level 2: Maturing: $115k AUD / $125k NZD, Performing: $135k AUD / $145k NZD
• 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