Senior Engineer - DevOps

Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive. 

At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.

We're looking for a Senior Engineer with a background in DevOps, SQL, Terraform, Octopus Deploy, AWS to work in our Auckland office! We are also open to candidates who want to work from our other NZ offices or remotely in NZ.

The team:

You’ll be a key part of the (DrDRE) Platform-as-a-Service Database team, a cross-functional agile infrastructure development team. Our goal is to create a data platform to provide Xero product teams with highly available databases in a consistent and automated fashion. You will build on the technical capabilities of the team to provision, own and maintain the production Database infrastructure, troubleshoot performance issues, build ancillary tooling, automation and resolve production incidents

The role:

As a Senior Engineer in the DrDRE, you will make an impact by applying your engineering skills to understand and drive the development of applications and tools that improve the scalability and performance of Xero.

If you enjoy flexibility in the way you work, and diving into difficult engineering problems while having the freedom to solve them creatively, this is the role for you.

Technical skills we're looking for:

• 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

At Xero you'll work on:

• 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
• Master several technical areas while maintaining a broad understanding of the current industry landscape. Ensure technical decisions are made with your team in alignment with Xero’s engineering practice. 
• Work proactively with your manager on your personal and career development, highlighting any training/development needs.
• You will join the teams on call rotation and use analytical and problem solving skills to resolve incidents.

Why Xero

Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), 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, 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, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.

Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables businesses, including ours, to better understand and serve customers, attract top talent and innovate successfully. At Xero we embrace diversity and inclusion and value a #challenge mindset.

Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience . If you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be just the right person for this role and Xero. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application and throughout the interview process.

Xero is an NZ Immigration Accredited Employer and Rainbow Tick certified too.