Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

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.

If you join Octopus, you’ll become a part of a high-trust, remote-first, and value-driven culture.

Octopus Cloud is our highly available, scalable, and secure SaaS application hosted for our customers

This role is part of the Cloud Platform team, which owns the Cloud Portal, Dynamic Workers, and cloud infrastructure. Our mission is to provide best-in-class cloud environments for Octopus Cloud customers.

We’re looking for a Software Engineer (Level 2). Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you’ll join a team of up to 10 engineers, plus a Principal Engineer and Product Manager, distributed across Australia and New Zealand for easier time zone collaboration.

As a Software Engineer, you’ll take ownership of smaller pieces of work while learning how to operate production systems safely, with support from your teammates. Our public roadmap has examples of work this team has released, planned, and is considering next.

This is a remote role based in Australia or New Zealand; we are unable to sponsor work visas at this time.

Why this job is exciting:
• Contribute to the future of deployment automation, with peers who value helping each other over solo heroics
• Build reliability and operational improvements through code (C#), with a software engineering mindset
• Spend time on automation: builds, tests, deployments, infrastructure, and operational tasks
• Grow your career with your manager through a development plan aligned to your goals

What you’ll do:
• Help manage and improve Azure infrastructure so it scales reliably and stays cost-effective
• Contribute to the internal Cloud Portal and custom modules in C#, shipping changes safely and incrementally
• Support customers and internal teams via incident response, troubleshooting, and follow-up improvements that reduce repeat issues
• Work with Azure (AKS, SQL, Storage Accounts, Azure Functions, and other services), Terraform, and Kubernetes as part of a team

Must-haves:
• Experience delivering production-quality code with support and review (C# strongly preferred)
• Comfort working on tasks and small projects, communicating progress and risks early
• You enjoy automating builds, tests, deployments, infrastructure, and operational tasks
• You enjoy solving problems in the domain of distributed infrastructure
• You work well in a “you built it, you run it” culture with guidance from senior engineers
• You collaborate kindly and directly: you ask for help when blocked and share what you learn

Nice-to-haves:
• Experience with Azure services, Terraform, Kubernetes, and/or Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Prior exposure to incident management, on-call, SRE/DevOps practices, or customer-support environments
• You apply concepts like dependency and extensibility with support from your team.

A typical day might also include:
• Reviewing a pull request, shipping a change, and seeing it reach customers via an automated pipeline
• Handling an inbound support ticket and following up with an improvement that prevents recurrence
• Pairing with another engineer to reproduce a tricky issue and document the outcome
• Fixing a bug with tests (e.g., red-green-refactor) to prevent regressions
• Improving documentation so customers and teammates can self-serve

On-call (paid, supported, and humane)

This role includes joining our paid on-call program (5% of base salary) once you’re confident in our systems, typically after 3 to 4 months of onboarding, with training and documentation provided. On-call coverage is 24×7, 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 2 (Intermediate): Maturing: $115k AUD / $125k NZD, Performing: $135k AUD / $145k NZD

Salaries exclude Super and KiwiSaver.

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 our 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.