Software Engineer

Summary

Join Octopus Deploy's Modern Deployments team as a Software Engineer and contribute to expanding first-class support for deploying applications into Kubernetes clusters. This remote role, based in Australia or New Zealand, involves working on a Kubernetes agent written in Go and the Octopus side written in C#. You will collaborate with a team of 12, including engineers and product managers, to improve the deployment process. A typical day includes coding, collaborating on pull requests, handling support tickets, pairing with other engineers, fixing bugs, improving documentation, and writing blog posts. The role requires expertise in software engineering, experience with C# (or interest in learning it), and familiarity with Kubernetes and Argo CD. Octopus offers a transparent compensation system, remote work flexibility, and various benefits.

Requirements

• You have a firm grasp of the software trade
• Have experience in C# and/or interest in learning more
• You are 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
• You enjoy automating deployments, infrastructure, and operational tasks, have experience or interest in Kubernetes and Argo CD
• You 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
• 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

• 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