Senior Software Engineer
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:
Kubernetes has become the standard, but deploying to it is still painful. We're fixing that. You'll build the tools that make Kubernetes deployments as simple as they should be - from the agent running in-cluster to the platform orchestrating it all.
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team of 9 (Senior Product Manager, Senior Product Designer, Engineering Manager, Lead Engineers, and Senior Engineers).
To help our teams work together effectively, this remote position requires you to be located in Poland. Permanent employment only — Umowa o pracę (UoP). Not available as a B2B/contract.
Who we're looking for:
We want engineers with agency and influence - people who operate like owners, raise the bar for the team, and multiply the impact of those around them.
You take initiative and drive direction. You don't wait to be told what to do. You identify the highest-impact problems, propose solutions, and rally others around them. You turn ambiguity into clarity for the team, not just yourself.
You own outcomes and set standards. When something breaks, you fix it and ensure it doesn't break again. When processes are unclear, you define them. You raise the quality bar through your work and how you work with others.
You ship and unblock others. You have a bias toward action. You'd rather iterate on something real than debate something theoretical. You know when to ask for permission and when to ask for forgiveness. You actively remove blockers for yourself and your teammates.
You leverage AI and scale knowledge. You actively use AI tools to amplify your impact. You're not threatened by AI-you're excited by it. You experiment with new tools, share what works, and help the team adopt better practices.
What you'll be doing:
- Design, build, and maintain backend services and platform components with a focus on long-term quality and scalability
- Lead technical design for complex features; make and document architectural decisions
- Drive improvements to existing systems-scalability, reliability, and eliminating technical debt
- Mentor teammates and raise team capabilities through code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing
- Collaborate across teams to align on technical direction and ensure consistency
- Operate and support the software you build; improve operational practices
Technical skills:
- At least 5 years of professional experience building backend software, with strong proficiency in C#
- Deep experience with Kubernetes (deploying, operating, and troubleshooting containerized workloads)
- Strong experience with SQL and relational databases, including performance optimization
- Advanced understanding of software fundamentals (API design, System Design, Testing Strategies, Distributed Systems)
- Track record of building, operating, and improving production systems at scale
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical decisions
Nice to have:
- Experience with Go (or strong interest in learning)
- Experience with React or frontend development
- Deep familiarity with container tooling, cloud-native systems, or CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with Argo CD or GitOps workflows
- Background in developer tools, platforms, or infrastructure products
- Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives
How we work:
- End-to-end ownership-you're responsible from code to production
- Humane on-call that respects your time
- Results-oriented: iterate quickly, ship value, change direction based on data
- Collaborative problem-solving with passion, pragmatism, and empathy
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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