Senior Engineer - Platform

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Cloud • Fintech • Information Technology • Machine Learning • Software
At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business.
The Role
Our Purpose 
At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

Platform Elements is a cross-functional agile infrastructure development team. The Platform Elements team builds platform products to enable Xero development teams to build and ship software in a fast, reliable and secure manner.  Platform Elements leverages modern cloud computing tooling and continuous integration practices. Through our customer centric approach we aim to reduce the cognitive load for Xero Product teams. 

The Sonic team builds and maintains core platform capabilities and infrastructure services that enable Xero’s engineering teams to deploy, operate, and scale software safely and efficiently in the cloud. As a Senior Engineer in Sonic, you'll 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.

You will have

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

You will have the opportunity to work with the below technologies:

  • Cloud: AWS (RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch), GCP, Azure
  • IaC & Automation: Terraform, Atlantis, Kora, Git
  • Languages: C#, Bash, Python (tooling and scripting)
  • Monitoring: CloudWatch, New Relic
  • Security/Compliance: IAM, KMS, Cloud Custodian, OPA

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.

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The Company
HQ: Wellington
4,500 Employees
Year Founded: 2006

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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