Engineering Manager

4 days ago


Wellington, New Zealand https:www.energyjobline.comsitemap.xml Full time

Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive. At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information, and connections. Because when they succeed, they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.
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. 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 help teams deliver a great customer experience through a better understanding of the behaviour and operation of their systems. We do this through striving to maximise the impact of post-incident learning across the organisation, as well as engaging with teams across the organisation with specialised reliability embedding and enablement, and running SRE workshops and training.
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.
About the Role
As an Engineering Manager at Xero, you’ll lead and inspire our SRE tooling teams, with a passion for production operations and the developer experience. You'll be instrumental in driving innovation, fostering a collaborative and inclusive team culture, and ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of Xero's products and platforms.
We’re looking for a seasoned technical leader and systems thinker with experience in site reliability engineering or related disciplines such as platform engineering, CICD, or internal developer tooling. Additionally, you’ll be familiar with the following SRE concepts:

Logging, monitoring, and observability, including service level objectives (SLOs)
Experience with incident management and response, including critical and high severity incidents
Engagement with post incident reviews, incident analysis and learning from incidents
Exposure to core concepts of reliability such as capacity management and autoscaling, deployment and release safety, fault tolerance, and graceful failure

What you’ll do:

Provide technical leadership and mentorship to our SRE teams, fostering alignment and collective success.
Lead and drive the delivery of cross-organisational reliability initiatives.
Collaborate with product teams, software engineers, and a wide group of stakeholders across Xero to define and achieve reliability goals.
Through curiosity and thoughtful questioning, engage in productive challenge, manage different viewpoints and move critical company priorities forward.
Develop a team culture of ownership through role modelling, empowerment, continuous improvement, experimentation, and feedback.
Analyse complex challenges, facilitate collaborative problem solving and navigate obstacles efficiently.
Drive engineering and reliability excellence both within SRE and across Xero.
Lift team and individual performance through coaching and mentoring, goal clarity, feedback, and removing barriers.
Contribute to the technical and engineering strategy of Xero's reliability initiatives.

What you'll bring with you:

Previous experience in an Engineering Management role, with proven leadership skills in a technical environment
Successful track record of leading delivery of strategically important projects and initiatives
Strong technical experience with solid engineering fluency and background
Experience working in any of the following areas: site reliability engineering, platform engineering, CICD, internal developer tooling, or product engineering
Experience leading teams that are operating production systems at scale
Strong understanding of the engineer experience and end-to-end developer toolchain
Ability to solve cross-organisation engineering challenges including using influence rather than authority to enact change
Strong business acumen and stakeholder management capabilities to support Global reliability responsibility across Xero
Understanding of human factors, safety science, and resilience engineering

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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