What you’ll do
- Lead database solutions: Design, implement, and maintain high-availability, secure SQL Server databases, including managing replication, clustering, mirroring, and backup/recovery processes.
- Optimize and maintain: Develop, optimize, and maintain complex SQL queries, stored procedures, and indexing strategies to ensure peak performance and reliability for our products.
- Drive technical improvements: Analyze and resolve challenges within our systems and for internal customers, shaping database strategies and driving technical enhancements.
- Ensure system health: Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and maintain and monitor delivery processes to proactively prevent customer-facing problems. This includes participating in an incident response process and an on-call roster, triaging issues, and communicating their impact to stakeholders.
- Collaborate and guide: Consult with product teams by providing constructive input into architectural decisions and technical guidance.
- Champion best practices: Implement and enforce database standards, security policies, and compliance requirements. Utilize workflow management tools like Jira to capture high-quality operational data.
- Mentor and share knowledge: Guide and mentor other engineers, sharing learnings through coaching, presentations, documentation, and team updates.
- Innovate and improve: Maintain knowledge of current and emerging database technologies, identify efficiencies, and contribute to the continuous improvement of team processes and modern delivery practices, including agile ceremonies.
What You’ll Bring With You
- Deep and Extensive Experience: A substantial track record (around 15+ years) in software development, demonstrating profound expertise and leadership in the architecture, hands-on design, implementation, and ongoing management of large-scale, complex database systems.
- SQL Expertise: At least 5 years of recent, in-depth experience with Microsoft SQL.
- Cloud Proficiency: Demonstrated success in implementing highly available, multi-region cloud-based applications, with a strong preference for experience in AWS and Azure.
- Database Optimisation Skills: Strong knowledge of database design, indexing, query optimization, performance tuning, and experience with logging and monitoring solutions (e.g., DPA, New Relic, Sumo Logic).
- Problem-Solving & Ownership: Excellent problem-solving skills, a proactive approach to performance improvements, a strong ownership ethic, and a pragmatic desire to solve hard scalability problems.
- Technical Debt Understanding: A solid understanding of technical debt from both application and database perspectives.
- Automation & Deployment: Experience designing and maintaining automated database deployment pipelines.
- Collaboration & Communication: Strong communication and collaboration abilities within multidisciplinary teams, with the ability to ask pertinent questions and identify innovations.
- Experience with NoSQL variants will be considered an advantage.
- Relevant industry certifications are highly regarded.
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What We Do
Xero is small business accounting software that provides a platform on which businesses can build a fully integrated solution. It’s designed to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. Xero minimises tedious admin by automating routine tasks, delivers valuable insights when needed, and brings together business data, trusted advisors, and powerful apps in one intuitive platform. By alleviating pain points, Xero empowers small business owners to supercharge their business, simplifying the complex and freeing up time from manual admin so they can focus on what really matters to build the business they’ve always envisaged.
Why Work With Us
Xero is a human-centric organization where you’ll have a tangible impact on the success of small businesses and their communities, globally. Our team of energised, forward-thinkers work to make life better for our customers and each other every day. We’re also always committed to supporting you with a flexible environment.
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