Senior Security Engineer

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.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Security Engineer based in either New Zealand or Australia to join our Cyber Security Engineering Function in our Edge Security pod. If you have  experience in Network Security engineering roles and are looking for an opportunity to focus on protecting the Edge, this could be the perfect role for you!

About the role

As a Senior Security Engineer, you’ll ensure our network edge security systems are deployed and maintained to support the requirements of our Xero teams. You’ll be hands-on solving problems at scale in a massive multi cloud environment. You’ll become deeply familiar with the capabilities of our vendors to build and support modern and adaptable security services that will delight our customers. 

We run mission-critical infrastructure, and you’ll build resilient and scalable systems. Automation will be the standard for you, and you’ll seek new and interesting ways to reduce our operational overheads. Most importantly, you’ll be a team player and get to work with an awesome group of engineers in an amazing and unique working environment.

About the team

Edge - Security Engineering

The vision of the Edge Security team is to secure Xero’s edge with innovative technologies that deliver availability and scalability. 

We’re responsible for designing, maintaining and servicing tools and infrastructure that defends against threats from entering or spreading through Xero's network infrastructure. We’re looking for a Senior Engineer that will help us create automated security processes that empower product teams to build #beautiful secure software. 

While we don’t require you to have worked with all of our tech stack previously, what is important is you are happy to learn and work with it. You might have worked with similar solutions.

Generally, the technologies we work with are:

• WAF technologies.
• Content Delivery Networks (CDNs).
• Web Service Products.
• Network security principles.
• Networking and system administration fundamentals.
• AWS, GCP and Azure.
• Python, JSON, YAML.
• Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Version Control.
• CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) platforms.

What you'll do

• It is a hands on, on the tools role and you’ll be the focal point where technical decisions meet strategic thinking.
• Develop software and automation as agreed with the team.
• Develop and maintain documentation.
• Be approachable and professional.
• Strong DevOps and Agile practices.
• Participate in the 24/7 oncall roster as required.
• Independently take ownership of problems and solve them.
• A strong drive to work in a team-oriented and collaborative environment.
• A passion for delivering high quality products to your customers.
• Coach/mentor junior team members.
• Work with other Xero Security Teams and Product teams to ensure that any escalated incidents and problems are resolved in a timely and comprehensive manner.  

What you'll bring

• Relevant engineering experience building and deploying solutions in a production environment.
• Ability to ensure Xero’s solutions are deployed and managed in a repeatable, reliable manner.
• Deployment experience which includes improving current processes and have a strong understanding of Continuous Integration/Delivery.  
• Ability to develop software and automation as agreed with the team. 

We truly value inclusivity and diversity in our Xero Security teams. We recently won an award for “Best place to work for Women in Security in New Zealand”.

Research has shown that often underrepresented and neurodiverse candidates will only apply for roles if they meet all the criteria. We make our hiring decisions based on passion, experience and potential so please apply even if you can’t tick every box! 

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.