Senior Site Reliability Engineer

3 days ago

Auckland City, New Zealand Xero 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**

Xero's Product SRE teams will consist of dedicated world class SRE engineers, embedded into product teams to drive enduring reliability, world class observability, and high performing services.

**About the role**

This position requires a strong engineering background and deep experience in SRE. Our Senior Engineers will provide technical proficiency to ensure the team can drive reliability across the product landscape.

As a seasoned and relentless engineer, they will contribute to the company's Product SRE strategy and contribute to the ongoing transformation of the Xero SRE culture. As an expert communicator, they'll manage change and ensure the value of robust systems is communicated clearly across the business.

Any experience with reliability concepts such as: capacity management, autoscaling, safe deployment and releases, software strategies for reliability, fault tolerance, and graceful failure would be highly beneficial. Understanding of human factors, safety science, and resilience engineering are also valuable.

**What you'll do**:
- Provide technical ownership to ensure completion of the day to day deliverables of a dedicated product SRE team. These will be highly experienced Site Reliability Engineers with a strong culture of ownership, automation first, and constant quality of delivery.
- Demonstrate technical proficiency in all aspects of reliability, observability, operability, and performance.
- Build long term relationships with product engineering teams, ensuring everyone can deliver on system reliability with a theme of continuous improvement.
- Champion observability best practice, ensuring implementation across products to ensure fast detection of impactful events.
- Contribute towards a culture of continuous improvement to ensure product reliability is continuously improving and impact of issues are reduced; create and actively monitor quality standards for SRE teams and report regularly on its adherence.

**What you'll bring**:
- Strong technical skillset with proven hands-on SRE experience. Demonstrable experience of delivery of reliability systems and solutions.
- Proven experience of mentoring in world class embedded SRE teams.
- Obsessed with delivering a high quality and highly stable customer experience. Passion for customer-first thinking, with a strong product mindset helping to understand and anticipate customer needs.
- Broad and deep technical understanding of modern cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their incident and problem management practices, particularly high-growth, high-availability SaaS-based transactional systems.
- Proficiency in one or more object-oriented programming languages (C#, JavaScript, Java, Python etc) or experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform, Cloudformation).
- Experience using observability tooling to monitor the health of a highly distributed system.

**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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