As a Senior Engineer, you'll implement cloud solutions, develop infrastructure-as-code, and maintain core platform capabilities for Xero's engineering teams.
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.
Top Skills
AWS
Azure
Bash
C#
Cloud Custodian
Cloudwatch
GCP
Git
Iam
Kms
New Relic
Opa
Python
Terraform
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