| Description | 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. Sonic build and manage several key Products at Xero that enable other teams to rapidly provision and manage resources in the Cloud (primarily AWS but we're looking at supporting Azure and GCP soon!). We make everything we build self-service so that we are not the bottleneck for developers. ➡ What you'll do: ➡ Lead from the front: Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentorship fostering a culture of high-velocity innovation and continuous improvement.Be a hands-on coder: Actively write code and contribute to the codebase tackling our most complex technical challenges.Drive our technical direction: In collaboration with other lead engineers and our principal engineer you'll shape the architecture and define the long-term technical vision for our most critical and innovative projects.Raise the bar: Champion high standards for code quality through thoughtful PR reviews and by improving our testing CI/CD and security practices. You will have the opportunity to work with the below technologies: ➡ Cloud: AWS (RDS S3 VPC IAM CloudWatch) GCP AzureIaC & Automation: Terraform Atlantis Kora GitLanguages: C# Bash Python (tooling and scripting)Monitoring: CloudWatch New RelicSecurity/Compliance: IAM KMS Cloud Custodian OPA You will have ➡ A strong capability for technical leadership and full-stack engineering with the ability to guide complex software projects from concept to launch. Significant knowledge in Terraform state management pipelining tooling.Deep cloud knowledge especially AWS. You will need to be strong with troubleshooting and understanding IAM and managing granular permissioning as well as understanding common AWS primitives at a deep level and be familiar with general cloud governance.Deep security knowledge needs a strong understanding of authentication and authorisation languages and patterns for both web service identities like oauth credential exchange and general policy languageExperience of modern product and engineering principles and practicesUnderstanding of cloud technologies and experience with CI/CD systemsUnderstanding of containerisation technologiesExperience writing APIs and infrastructure-as-code ➡ 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. |