Engineer

Summary

Join Xero's Tooling team as an Engineer to enhance the reliability, usability, and integration of internal tools. You will maintain and evolve the infrastructure, build automation, improve developer experience, and ensure tool scalability and security. Collaborate with senior engineers and stakeholders to improve tool provisioning and integration. This hands-on role involves contributing to automation, improving developer experience, and enabling better governance through quality tooling. You will work closely with various teams to ensure tools are well-integrated into their workflows and CI/CD pipelines. Continuous improvement of developer experience through tooling enhancements is a key aspect of this position.

Requirements

• Experience in supporting DevOps-style infrastructure and CI/CD tooling environments
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform
• Understanding of distributed version control (e.g., Git) and CI/CD pipelines
• Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, C#, .NET)
• Interest in internal tooling, developer enablement, and automation
• Strong documentation and communication skills to support tool adoption across teams
• Willingness to participate in support rotations and learn from incidents
• Growth mindset and eagerness to learn new tools and technologies

Responsibilities

• Support the infrastructure and CI/CD setup of tools we own—such as SonarQube, Playwright, LaunchDarkly, and others
• Build automation and integrations that improve how engineering teams adopt and use our tooling
• Contribute to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to provision and manage resources—preferably using Terraform
• Participate in improving the reliability and maintainability of our tooling stack through monitoring, testing, and feedback loops
• Collaborate with teams to ensure tools are well-integrated into their workflows and CI/CD pipelines
• Assist in documenting setup instructions, best practices, and operational runbooks
• Participate in on-call rotations to support uptime and issue resolution for shared tools
• Continuously seek ways to improve developer experience through tooling enhancements
• Contribute to internal technical discussions and engineering improvement initiatives

Preferred Qualifications

Experience supporting or integrating tools like SonarQube, LaunchDarkly, or Playwright is a plus

Benefits

• Very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!)
• Dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing
• An Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family
• Free medical insurance
• Wellbeing and sports programmes
• Employee resource groups
• 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers
• An Employee Share Plan
• Beautiful offices
• Flexible working
• Career development