Senior Software Engineer - Backend Foundations Team
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Summary
The Senior Software Engineer will be part of the Backend Foundations Team, developing core components of Octopus Server used by internal teams. Key responsibilities include improving observability with OpenTelemetry, consolidating work abstractions, enhancing build times, and exploring the modularity of the monolithic architecture. The ideal candidate possesses strong C# skills, understands dependency management and extensibility, and enjoys automating tasks. Experience in improving testing and feedback loops is highly desirable. The role involves working within a 'you built it, you run it' culture, collaborating effectively with others, and delivering valuable results iteratively.
Must have:
- Firm grasp of software development using C#
- Experience in improving testing techniques and feedback loops
- Comfortable with dependency, extensibility, and compatibility concepts
- Automation of builds, tests, deployments, infrastructure, and operational tasks
- Experience in a 'you built it, you run it' culture
- Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively
Good to have:
- Specialization in a specific area of software engineering
- Experience with OpenTelemetry
- Experience with .NET, TypeScript, and React
Perks:
- Minimum 25 days annual leave
- Up to 10 days paid sick and carers leave
- 12 weeks fully paid parental leave
- Stock options
- Remote-first work environment
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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, ASOS, Xero, monday.com, 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 30–50% every year for the past 8 years, and we’ve been profitable for 10 out of the past 11 years.
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.
Elevate Octopus Server with Your Expertise!
This role is part of the Backend Foundations Team, which develops the building blocks of Octopus Server. Our customers are other internal teams that develop against Octopus Server, who choose to rely on these building blocks for simple, reliable and performant foundations.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience in developing strong foundations that support software teams. Our current roadmap is focused on several areas including: improving observability with trace telemetry (OpenTelemetry); consolidating our work abstractions; tightening feedback loops for engineers (improving build times); further exploring the modularity of our monolithic architecture and supporting patterns and guidance, so teams fall into the pit of success easily.
If you are excited by challenges like improving testing techniques and tightening feedback loops, we want you on our team!
You will be a great fit for this role if:
- You have a firm grasp of the software trade using C#.
- 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 builds, tests, deployments, infrastructure, and operational tasks.
- 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.
You'll Enjoy This Role If:
- You like a balance of freedom and responsibility, being treated as an adult.
- You want to do the best work of your life with other like-minded people.
- You enthusiastically accept radically candid feedback; that is thoughtful, timely, and directly actionable, and you offer the same benefit to others.
- You enjoy solving complex distributed computing, automation, security, performance, and usability problems.
- You like working with great tools like the latest versions of C#, .NET, TypeScript, and React, in the development environment of your choice.
- You like working with customers directly, helping them succeed with Octopus, even if success is elusive.
- You enjoy doing things the right way from the very beginning knowing you are working on a valuable asset.
Compensation:
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.
The compensation for this role is:
Level 3 (Senior): Maturing: $145k AUD / $155k NZD, Performing: $165k AUD / $175k 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. Learn more.
Below is the interview process you can expect for this role. We know interviewing can seem daunting, but rest assured we designed our interview process to move quickly while still getting you all the information you need.
👋🏼Initial chat
[30 min] Talent acquisition screen: Meet with your Talent Acquisition team and get a feel for what it would be like to be an Octonaut!
💻Take-Home Challenge
[2-4 hours] Technical assessment: Complete a bespoke technical challenge at your own pace. This is evaluated by two Software Engineers to determine if we progress to the Live Code interview
🧑💻Live Code Interview
[75 min] Live Code Interview: Discuss your solution with two of our Software Engineers. Pair program to extend your solution in the final 15 minutes.
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.
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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$117.0K - $176.0K/yr (Outscal est.)
$146.5K/yr avg.
Australia
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