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Senior Software Engineer

Australia/New Zealand

About Octopus Deploy:

Octopus Deploy sets the standard for Continuous Delivery, empowering software teams to deliver value in an agile way. Over 4,000 organizations globally –  including Ubisoft, Xero, Stack Overflow, NASA, and Disney – rely on our Continuous Delivery, GitOps, and release orchestration solutions. 

Founded in Australia in 2012, our team of over 300 Octonauts now spans the globe. We combine high growth and big ambitions with a sustainable, balanced working environment. Our revenue has grown consistently between 20–50% every year for the past 9 years, and we’ve been profitable for 10 out of the past 12 years. Octopus now provides the industry's most comprehensive Continuous Delivery solution for organizations operating at scale. 

We’ve been remote-first since 2015 and work with an uncommon level of transparency. You can read our public handbook to learn how we work. We have a transparent approach to compensation that ensures people doing the same work with the same skill get paid the same, with well-defined career pathways. We foster a supportive, collaborative, and high-trust environment. We leave our job titles at the door and focus on doing what’s best for our customers and team. Our leaders never shy away from answering the tough questions at our all-hands calls or in 1:1s. We conduct interviews and onboarding virtually as part of being a remote-first company.

About the role:

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Build Foundations team, reporting to an Engineering Manager. The team is multi-disciplinary, with Software Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, and a Principal Engineer distributed across Australia and New Zealand. Build Foundations owns our build systems, release pipelines, and internal tooling, running over 1.7 million builds per year. Our mission: provide a reliable, observable build platform so Octopus R&D teams can ship high-quality changes quickly and safely.
 
As a Senior Software Engineer at Octopus (L3), you’ll take meaningful slices of work from idea to production, make pragmatic trade-offs around reliability and maintainability, and help raise the bar for the engineers around you.
 
To help our teams work together effectively, this remote position requires you to be located in Australia or New Zealand. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for candidates outside of theses countries. 

What you'll do:

  • Build and improve internal tooling and modules in C# that help teams ship faster and with fewer surprises.
  • Strengthen build and release pipelines so deployments are smooth, repeatable, and easy to reason about.
  • Improve reliability and operability through better defaults, automation, and observability.
  • Partner with engineers across R&D to remove friction from builds, tests, deployments, and infrastructure workflows.
  • Contribute to incident response and operational support to minimise downtime and speed up recovery.
  • Work with tools like Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, Honeycomb, Sumo Logic, and some AWS (plus AI-assisted tools where they help).

Your background:

  • You find joy in helping other engineers go faster.
  • Strong experience shipping production-quality C# and taking work from idea to production#
  • You enjoy automating builds, tests, deployments, infrastructure, and operational tasks.
  • Comfort operating software in production: you design for reliability, diagnose issues, and improve systems over time.
  • Practical experience with modern delivery and infrastructure practices (e.g., pipelines, IaC, Kubernetes, cloud platforms).
  • Good engineering judgement: you make sensible trade-offs on scaling, reliability, maintenance, and technical debt.
  • A “help others go faster” mindset: you unblock teammates, share context, and lift the team through reviews and mentoring.
  • Clear, kind communication in a remote-first environment (written and verbal).
  • Ownership without ego: you take responsibility, learn from mistakes, and take on the necessary unglamorous work when it matters.

Why you'll love this role:

  • Work on internal platform foundations that shape how Octopus engineers build, ship, and operate software every day.
  • Solve infrastructure and reliability problems through code, with a software engineering mindset.
  • Join a supportive team that values collaboration, learning, and sustainable pace.

On-call (paid, supported, and humane)

You’ll join our on-call program once you’re confident in our systems (typically after 6 months), with training and documentation provided. Coverage is 24×7, and you receive an allowance of 5% of base salary when on the program, and teams usually roster no more than ~2 weeks in every 8 per person.

Compensation:

Level 3 (Senior): Maturing: $145k AUD / $155k NZD, Performing: $165k AUD / $175k NZD
 
Salaries exclude Super and Kiwi Saver.

Our public employee handbook is the best place to learn more about life at Octopus. It includes our values, how we structure teams, career progression, leave and benefits, and much more. 

Octopus has an internally open and transparent system for compensation. Any Octonaut can view the compensation for any role at any level. This ensures people doing the same work with the same skill get paid the same. 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, generous health care (100% individuals, 75% dependents), dental and vision, 401K matching, pension contributions of up to 5%, and stock options. Learn more.

If you're enthusiastic about this position, even if you don’t meet all the criteria above, we wholeheartedly encourage you to submit your application. Our talent team is in-house, and we recognize that every individual brings something unique. We take the time to review every application and consider how you might add to the team. 

We know your time is precious. If you apply, we promise to update you at least once per week about the status of your application and to give you clear expectations for each step in the journey.

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