Senior Engineer - Platform

Summary

Join Xero's Platform Elements team as a Senior Engineer and contribute to the Sonic team, building and maintaining core platform capabilities and infrastructure services. You will work across AWS and emerging multi-cloud environments, delivering infrastructure-as-code solutions, cloud automation, and internal tooling. The role requires hands-on experience implementing solutions in a cloud environment, preferably AWS, and experience delivering code in a production environment. You will leverage modern product and engineering principles and practices, understanding of cloud technologies, and experience with CI/CD systems. The position offers generous paid leave, paid leave for wellbeing, free medical insurance, wellbeing programs, 26 weeks of paid parental leave, an Employee Share Plan, flexible working, and career development.

Requirements

• Have hands-on experience implementing solutions in a cloud environment, preferably AWS
• Have experience in delivering code in a production environment
• Have experience of modern product and engineering principles and practices
• Have understanding of cloud technologies and experience with CI/CD systems
• Have understanding of containerisation technologies
• Have experience working with others in a collaborative, open and proactive way
• Have experience writing APIs and infrastructure-as-code

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain core platform capabilities and infrastructure services that enable Xero’s engineering teams to deploy, operate, and scale software safely and efficiently in the cloud
• Work across AWS and emerging multi-cloud environments to deliver infrastructure-as-code solutions, cloud automation, and internal tooling that enforce operational excellence, compliance, and developer enablement

Benefits

• Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!)
• Offering dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family
• Offering free medical insurance
• Offering wellbeing and sports programmes
• Offering employee resource groups
• Offering 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers
• Offering an Employee Share Plan
• Offering beautiful offices
• Offering flexible working
• Offering career development