Remote Senior Engineer

Summary

Join Xero as a Senior Engineer with expertise in DevOps, SQL, Terraform, Octopus Deploy, AWS to work on creating a data platform for Xero product teams. The role involves building and maintaining production Database infrastructure, troubleshooting performance issues, and resolving incidents.

Requirements

• Database/Infrastructure - SQL/Postgres/Dynamo
• Scripting experience - Python, Powershell
• Infrastructure as Code - Terraform, Cloudformation
• CICD - Jenkins, Octopus deploy, Teamcity, Github Actions
• Cloud Platform - AWS or relevant exp

Responsibilities

• Be customer-focused and directly engage with our PaaS customers; identify customer pain points and solve real customer problems based on observing their struggles and analysing customer data
• Develop continuous delivery pipelines and software tools to automate cloud-based solutions
• Build and maintain a centralised SQL Server platform and ancillary tools to enable Xero’s development teams
• Automate and support infrastructure provisioned in AWS with infrastructure-as-code solutions
• Continuously improve processes and solutions to be scalable and highly available
• Implement detection and alerting of anomalous behaviours

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
• Free medical insurance
• Wellbeing and sports programmes
• Employee resource groups
• 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers
• Employee Share Plan