Xero is hiring a
Lead Engineer

Summary

Join a global team in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Xero to drive and influence the company's reliability experience for customers. As a Lead Engineer, you will be a key contributor to SRE's influence across Xero, taking technical ownership of your area and contributing technical expertise and leadership to align team deliverables with wider SRE and Xero initiatives.

Requirements

• Strong and proven technical delivery experience in a similar Tech Lead role
• Strong experience using software engineering to solve operational, reliability challenges and lead technical initiatives with the user front of mind
• Experience and knowledge of developer productivity and continuous delivery
• Experience with data engineering and working with a data-driven platform in a cross-functional team
• Experienced in modern best practices on DevOps, CICD, Continuous Delivery and Quality Engineering
• Experience with Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
• Comfortable with most of the following technologies: SQL, Snowflake, dbt, Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, Microstrategy, Git, CI/CD pipelines
• Exposure to data integration tools (such as dbt) and any data testing tools (example dbt expectations)

Responsibilities

• Take a multi-year approach, exhibit a high standard of technical judgement, innovation and execution to tackle open-ended problems, defining both the what and how of things to be done
• Build cross-functional relationships across the engineering organisation, breaking down silos to influence for the best reliability outcomes for Xero
• Through curiosity and thoughtful questioning, you will engage in productive challenge, manage different viewpoints and move critical company priorities forward
• Lift team and individual performance through coaching and mentoring, goal clarity, feedback and removing barriers
• Develop a team culture of ownership through role modelling, empowerment, continuous improvement, experimentation and feedback
• Analyse complex challenges, facilitate collaborative problem solving and navigate obstacles efficiently
• Translate organisational and engineering needs into a technical vision and roadmap for your team, and be a key driver in implementing that roadmap over time
• Provide thought leadership and guidance on development best practices, continuous delivery, quality, security, scalability & performance, monitoring & alerting and documentation

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
• Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Income protection
• Wellbeing and sports programmes
• Employee resource groups
• 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers
• Employee Share Plan
• Beautiful offices
• Flexible working
• Career development