Octopus Deploy Remote (within Australia, New Zealand) Full-time

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.
The Opportunity to Make Your Mark
As the Senior Engineering Manager, you’ll use your leadership skills and empathy to build a new team focused on Product-Led Growth. With the support of your Product Manager and Product Marketing Manager, you’ll help set the team’s goals and direction. You’ll work closely with teams across the company, including Sales, Marketing, and Data, to run experiments and find the best ways to succeed together.

Why this job is exciting:

  • You’ll have the opportunity to create a sustainable, high-performing team of autonomous workers, holding them accountable for their results and letting them manage how they get there.
  • Your team will focus on improving our product-led growth motion, a strategically important part of our growing and profitable company.
  • We offer great benefits, including generous laptop and home office allowances, plus stock options!
  • We value transparency and fairness in every aspect of our business. For example, our executive leadership team shares monthly updates on company performance, and our pay structures are designed to pass the printer test.
  • Trust and autonomy. Octonauts are treated like adults and are trusted to find the best way to work for the task at hand without managers looking over their shoulder.
  • You’ll join a high-growth company with numerous opportunities to learn and advance your career.
  • Remote first: work from wherever you feel most productive.
  • We are a supportive company where everyone’s contribution is valued.
  • We respect and encourage work/life balance.

A typical day might include:

  • Working flexibly in your home office, using a device of your choice, with or without music, in an atmosphere you create for yourself.
  • Clarifying the goals, roles, development, and execution plans for your team.
  • Helping your team understand our strategy and how they contribute to the big picture.
  • Proactively coaching people remotely, accelerating them along their personal growth trajectory.
  • Contributing positively to how we approach people and culture in the engineering team, including attracting and growing talent, supporting those who are thriving and also those who are struggling, building our culture, and fostering great career growth.

A typical day might include:

  • Has a well-equipped managerial toolbox and experience leading a large team of engineers delivering business impact.
  • Has a technical background in software engineering or a deep understanding of low-level technical concepts, like networking, application architecture, and/or databases.
  • Thrives on exploration and experimentation to discover iterative improvements that will have a lasting impact.
  • Can independently identify and tackle projects that solve open-ended, ambiguous problems that are often beyond the scope of your immediate team.
  • Will take accountability for the people in your team, the way they work, and the results they deliver.
  • Can identify and diagnose problems and proactively create solutions to ensure a team performs at its best.
  • Will autonomously guide your team to the sustainable delivery of business impact. 
  • Can confidently coach developers at any level to reach their full potential.
  • Can confidently help your team navigate their way through large organisational change.
  • Gives and receives “radically candid” feedback that challenges and demonstrates care.
  • Is or strives to be a champion for diversity, equity, and inclusion.