The Senior Engineer will develop software applications, contribute to cloud infrastructure modernization, and manage tools for continuous integration and deployment, focusing on data-driven decisions and automation.
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 team builds platform products to enable Xero development teams to build and ship software in a fast, reliable and secure manner. Platform 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.
They embed with teams or engage through targeted projects to tackle complex, high-priority work which fast-tracks uplifting systems to follow best practices. For example, migrating systems from manually-created EC2 instances to immutable containers running on Kubernetes, or implementing automated build/deploy pipelines in CI configured via code.
Our product engineering teams are their “internal customer” - so working effectively across a large group of people as a team is a key to success. They operate Delivery & Support services centered on uplifting non-functional aspects of software, through enabling and helping engineers to continuously improve their systems. They take pride in measurement, and extend this to capturing feedback from our customers to learn and improve on the services we deliver to them.
The team
The Postmodernisers are responsible for maintaining and extending Xero's tooling for creating cloud infrastructure for Windows applications and deploying to it. They work to modernise this fleet and create pathways for teams to move to a containerised future.
The role
You’ll contribute to our cross functional environment by working towards the same objectives, using modern engineering principles and practices. You’ll undertake software application development on applications in our suite of products (including new ones), contributing to new or improved experiences for our customers, internal and external. You'll help build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale. You will be enabled to seek clarity with technical complexities and be able to demonstrate smart ways to automate. You will make data-driven decisions that will release value early to solve Xero customers' problems more effectively.
You will have the opportunity to use the below technologies:
- Windows Containers
- ECS
- CICD Pipelines (TeamCity and GitHub Actions)
- Terraform
- Packer
- Ruby
- Chef
- EC2
- Powershell
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
Chef
Cicd Pipelines
Ec2
Ecs
Github Actions
Packer
Powershell
Ruby
Teamcity
Terraform
Windows Containers
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