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We simplify complex software deployments so our customers can focus on what they do best.
The Role
Join the Build Foundations team to enhance internal tooling, optimize build and release pipelines, and improve system reliability. Responsibilities include automating processes, contributing to incident responses, and collaborating with R&D engineers.
Summary Generated by Built In
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.
We’re a profitable scale-up of 300+ people, growing steadily. We’ve built a high-trust, remote-first, and value-driven culture where people are given space to do their best work.
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.
A typical week might include:
- 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)
What we’re looking for:
- 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:
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
Salaries exclude Super and Kiwi Saver.
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] Meet with a Talent Acquisition team member, and get a feel for what it would be like to be an Octonaut!
💻Technical Assessment
You'll be given a technical assignment to complete, and candidates with passing solutions will be invited to demonstrate them in a technical interview.
🧑💻Technical Interview
[~75 min] Discuss your solution with our Engineers.
☕Hiring Manager chat
[30 min] A final call to answer any last questions of yours and ours.
We are looking for people who live and work in Australia and New Zealand to join our remote-first team. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship.
Top Skills
AWS
Azure
C#
Honeycomb
Kubernetes
Sumo Logic
Terraform
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The Company
What We Do
Octopus Deploy is one of Australia’s fastest-growing software companies (and we’re taking on the world). After bootstrapping for a decade, in 2021, we quietly raised Australia's second-largest ever venture capital raise, accepting a USD 172M minority investment from Insight Partners. In short: Octopus simplifies the most complicated deployments wherever you deploy your software.
Why Work With Us
You'll be joining a high-growth company with numerous opportunities to learn and advance your career. We offer great benefits and value transparency and fairness in every aspect of our business. Octopus is a high-trust environment that values each individual’s contributions while encouraging a work/life balance.
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