Lead Software Engineer

$140,000 -$180,000 plus super

Octopus Deploy is one of Australia's fastest-growing and most successful software companies. Today we help over 150,000 people worldwide to deliver working software to production.

If you have a commitment to excellence, a desire to delight customers, and want to be a member of a fast-growing team, you'll love this position.

You will be a great fit for this role if:

• You understand scalability, event-driven architecture, eventual consistency and have built distributed systems before.
• You are an experienced individual contributor or leader in your current job.
• You have a firm grasp of the software trade using any language or toolset but preferably C# and to a lesser degree TypeScript.
• You are comfortable making good decisions with general concepts like dependency, extensibility, and compatibility; and perhaps you are a specialist in an area of software engineering.
• You enjoy automating things like builds, tests, deployments, infrastructure, and operational tasks.
• You are able to work independently, motivating yourself and leading others to do high-quality work on time, communicating with your teammates when you need help or when you 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, someone who is focused on iteratively delivering valuable things to your customers, someone who willingly changes direction based on clear and transparent business information, and someone who helps others do the same.
• You have a good understanding of Microsoft Azure, specifically Azure Files, Azure SQL and Azure Kubernetes Service, or good understanding of any other Cloud platform.
• Optional: You have a good understanding of Kubernetes and containers.

A typical day might include:

• Working where you work best, perhaps 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 around the world 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.

On-Call

• Our customers entrust us with one of their most important systems which is why we provide 24/7 support for Octopus Cloud. At the moment we have 7 engineers in the 24/7 On-Call rotation. This means each of us, including Engineering Manager, is on-call once every 7 weeks (or ~7 times a year). Each shift is 1 week long.
• This sounds scary, doesn't it? In reality it's not.
• We average ~2 incidents a week outside of business hours and none of them are major
• You will get trained before you join the rotation
• You will always have ability to reach out to the rest of us if you need help
• You will support the system you build, not something you've never seen before
• We value our sleep so Production incidents are fixed in a way that prevents them from reoccurring
• You will be able to ask to swap shifts or parts of them with other team members
• This additional responsibility attracts extra compensation. You will get paid AUD $400 for each shift.
• You will get paid AUD $200 for each callout outside of your business hours, capped to a maximum of 5 callouts per shift

Interested? We'd love to hear from you. Please include a cover letter outlining what you can bring to the role and how Octopus would be a good fit for you. We are looking for people who live and work in Australia or New Zealand to join our remote-first team. We are currently unable to provide visa sponsorship.