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
The Tax team at Xero is responsible for developing and launching tax-related products and features to enable Xero's accounting partners and their clients to meet their tax compliance needs.
About the Role
Xero seeks an Infrastructure Engineer to join our growing team. You'll be a key player in supporting our product development teams, ensuring smooth and efficient deployments. Your expertise in AWS and CI/CD will be invaluable as you guide and mentor engineers, promote best practices, and automate infrastructure tasks. You'll help us build a robust and scalable environment for our cutting-edge tax product, enabling continuous delivery and a better experience for our customers.
What you’ll do:
- Infrastructure Expertise: Design, implement, and manage AWS infrastructure.
- DevOps Support: Guide teams on best practices, automate deployments, and improve release processes.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to enhance infrastructure and optimise performance.
- Mentorship: Coach engineers on infrastructure concepts and best practices.
What you’ll bring with you:
- Strong AWS experience in a high-availability environment
- Coding/scripting experience (e.g., Kotlin, Terraform)
- Experience supporting multiple development teams
- Understanding of release processes (e.g., blue/green deployments, canary releases).
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, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, 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.
Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables businesses, including ours, to better understand and serve customers, attract top talent and innovate successfully. We are a member of Pride in Diversity, in recognition of our inclusive workplace. Our goal is to make sure you feel welcome and supported to do the best work of your life.
At Xero we embrace diversity and inclusion and value a #challenge mindset. 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.
