What You Will Do:
- The Xero Chaos Engineering Team is a part of the Site Reliability Engineering organization and is responsible for constantly tuning the operational readiness and efficiency of Xero services.The team is responsible for driving enduring reliability at Xero and is focused on improving system resilience by intentionally introducing controlled disruptions of failures into a system to identify weaknesses and vulnerabilities in both pre-production and production environments. The goal is to identify weaknesses before they become outages.
What You'll Bring With You:
- The Chaos Engineering Team is responsible for designing and implementing chaos experiments to identify weaknesses in system architecture and improve overall reliability. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop strategies that enhance system resilience and ensure optimal performance in production environments.
- You will design and build a failure mode and chaos engineering environment that allows for repeatable and scalable testing to be carried out within Xero. You will design and execute chaos experiments to simulate various failure scenarios.
- Develop and maintain chaos engineering frameworks and tools
- Collaborate with development and operations teams to implement improvements based on experiment results.
- Monitor system health and performance metrics to assess the impact of chaos experiments.
- Educate team members on chaos engineering principles and best practices.
- Analyze system behavior during experiments and document findings. Continuously improve chaos engineering process and methodologies.
- Proficient in programming languages such as Python, Go, Java, C#, C+, .NET for automation and tool development
- Experienced in using chaos engineering tools like Gremlin, Chaos Monkey or Litmus.
- Excellent analytical skills to assess system performance and identify weaknesses.
- Effective communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams and convey complex concepts.
- Leadership abilities to drive chaos engineering initiatives and foster a culture of resilience
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools to track system health and performance metrics.
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, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, 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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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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