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About the role
As a Principal Engineer within the Site Reliability Engineering team at Xero, you will be a figurehead within your portfolio, providing leadership in how SRE influences across Xero to provide the most reliable experience for our customers. Leaders, engineers and teams you work with will aspire to emulate you and the people around you will grow in capability and confidence by working with you!
You’ll be a strong communicator with the ability to influence others in a human way, you will take ownership of your portfolio and guide your team to greatness. You'll come with strong business acumen and stakeholder management capabilities, the ability to solve cross-organisation engineering challenges using influence rather than authority to enact change.
We're looking for an expert and evangelist in modern SRE principles as a fundamental requirement for this role; in addition we value people with a broad set of skills, who can share their wealth of knowledge with others to drive change and growth at Xero.
About the team
In Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), we drive and influence Xero to provide the most reliable experience for our customers. We are a global team based across New Zealand, Australia and the USA.
In SRE at Xero, we combine software and systems engineering to enable engineers across Xero to build and support products that are observable, stable, performant, tolerant to failure, and operate as intended in the face of varying conditions.
We strive to maximise the impact of post incident learning across the organisation to improve the reliability and robustness of the Xero platform, while providing enablement and training across observability, reliability engineering, incident management and service ownership.
We also enable engineers across Xero through developing, supporting and integrating a collection of proprietary and off the shelf tooling to enable incident management and response, incident analysis and learning, monitoring and observability and resource ownership. We surface data and metrics, and provide detailed insights across operational health, production operations and developer productivity.
You'll come with a wide range of skills, including exposure to:
Reliability and distributed systems engineering, including running complex systems at large scale
Strong strategic delivery experience in either software engineering or platform engineering
Experience working in environments with more advanced security and networks
Applying systems thinking and systems engineering to the engineering environment
Experience applying AI/ML and advanced analytical techniques to drive operational improvements and predictive reliability
Advanced experience in logging, monitoring and observability of distributed systems, including troubleshooting and service level objectives
Leading incident management and response, including complex and high severity incidents; post incident reviews, incident analysis and learning from incidents
Strong hands on experience in DevOps, continuous delivery, CI/CD, automated quality and safe deploy and release at scale
Experience with the implementation and support of SaaS developer tooling commonly used for observability and incident management, such as New Relic, Sumo Logic and/or PagerDuty.
You'll lead engineering excellence by:
Taking a multi-year, industry leading perspective, you will ensure that our products are observable, stable, performant, tolerant to failure, and operate as intended in the face of varying conditions
Building deep cross-functional relationships at all levels of the organisation, breaking down silos to influence for the best reliability outcomes for Xero
Through curiosity and thoughtful questioning, you will engage in productive challenge, manage different viewpoints and move critical company priorities forward
Working between multiple levels, you will influence technical and engineering strategy and direction while also remaining connected to the day to day engineering challenges
Lifting team and individual performance through coaching and mentoring, goal clarity, feedback and removing barriers
Developing a team culture of ownership through role modelling, empowerment, continuous improvement, experimentation and feedback
Analysing complex challenges, facilitating collaborative problem solving and navigating obstacles efficiently
Translating strategy and organisational and engineering needs into a technical vision and roadmap across the domain, and being a key driver in implementing that vision over time
Providing thought leadership and guidance on security, scalability & performance, monitoring & alerting, analytics, documentation and quality
Additional Information
Why Xero?
Diversity of people brings diversity of thought, and we like that. Our human-first culture of respect, fairness, and inclusion is what helps Xeros thrive and work and beyond. 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, employee resource groups, wellbeing programming and allowances, medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance, fertility and family forming financial support, 401k contribution matching, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices with snacks and break areas, flexible working, career development and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.
Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience. If you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be just the right person for this role and Xero. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application and throughout the interview process.
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