Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Platform Team

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.

Overview

This Cloud Platform team Software Engineering role is an exciting opportunity to apply your Software Engineering mindset and skills in conjunctions with DevOps, SRE, or similar knowledge to solving infrastructure problems, such as managing and optimising various Azure resources, ensuring that the cloud-based infrastructure scales efficiently and remains reliable. You will act as the point person for monitoring the health of this infrastructure, promptly resolving issues and aiming to guarantee minimal downtime.

Additionally, you will be tasked with spearheading initiatives to improve the infrastructure, whether that involves integrating new Azure services, refining deployment processes, or implementing best practices for continuous integration and continuous deployment. Your expertise will be vital for maintaining the existing infrastructure and innovating and future-proofing our cloud strategies.

Responsibilities

• Cloud Infrastructure Management:
• Monitoring and Optimisation of Azure resources.
• Contribute to infrastructure improvement initiatives.
• Application Development:
• Contribute to and enhance internal portal and custom modules in C#
• Ensure smooth deployment and integration of features.
• Operations and Maintenance:
• Monitor infrastructure health.
• Resolve operational issues and minimize downtime.
• Respond to customer requests
• Involved in incident management and on-call roster.
• Key Technologies: Azure (AKS, SQL, Storage Accounts, Azure Functions, and other cloud services), Kubernetes.

You will be a great fit for this role if:

• You have a firm grasp of the software trade using Object-oriented Programming languages - we use C#, Go, and TypeScript.
• 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.