Top Engineering Jobs in Melbourne, VIC

Lead the technical direction, architecture, development, and operational health of Xero’s global bill-payments platform. Build highly available, secure, scalable backend services, contribute hands-on production code, solve distributed fintech problems, and guide technical planning. Partner with product, security, risk, legal, and operations teams while mentoring engineers, improving reliability and observability, leading on-call practices, and promoting AI-assisted engineering workflows.

Lead Xero’s Cloud Networks team, setting direction and delivering a multi-year strategy across AWS and edge providers. Manage and develop seven engineers while balancing roadmap priorities with support requests and incidents. Oversee cloud networking, DNS, CDN, reliability, security, cost, technical debt, and modernization. Collaborate with Product, Security, and Cloud Capabilities teams, establish effective ways of working, and communicate decisions clearly to stakeholders.

Design, build, and operate production backend systems, services, pipelines, and infrastructure powering Xero’s LLM-driven and agentic AI products. Responsibilities include system architecture, APIs, cloud infrastructure, reliability, observability, cost and latency management, on-call support, incident response, data processing, and mentoring engineers. The role partners with scientists and cross-functional teams to operationalize AI systems at scale without requiring model-training expertise.

Site Reliability Engineer responsible for improving reliability across Xero’s global platform. The role involves building Kubernetes operators and automated tooling, enhancing AWS telemetry and alerting, implementing chaos engineering, load shedding, and rate limiting, and coordinating incident management and post-incident reviews. The engineer partners with product and infrastructure teams to design resilient systems, diagnose distributed-system issues, and apply sustainable reliability improvements.

Build and support platform systems that create test environments and provide reliable test data for engineering teams. Develop Golang services and infrastructure using Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, EC2, and Lambda. Improve testing workflows, shorten feedback loops, support legacy and modern systems, communicate across teams, and participate in an on-call rotation.

Engineer AI-enabled automation, integrations, workflows, and guardrails across Xero’s Atlassian, Google Workspace, Slack, and internal AI ecosystem. Own production systems, solve complex technical challenges, improve reliability, contribute to architecture and engineering standards, maintain documentation, and support or mentor teammates. The role requires hands-on scripting, API and integration design, cloud productivity systems expertise, security awareness, and strong communication in a hybrid Vancouver-based team.

Shape technical strategy for Xero’s payments products and platform portfolios, influencing architecture, engineering standards, and scalable distributed systems across 40–50 engineers. Partner with senior stakeholders, remain hands-on with design and code, guide decisions on legacy systems, mentor senior engineers, and lead initiatives involving payment rails, APIs, cloud platforms, AI-powered workflows, and global transaction infrastructure.

Shape technical strategy for Xero’s Payments Products and Payments Platform portfolios. Design scalable, resilient distributed systems, guide architecture across 40–50 engineers, evaluate legacy systems for extension or migration, and remain hands-on with technical work. Collaborate with product and senior engineering stakeholders, mentor Staff and Senior engineers, establish engineering standards, and support payment platform modernization, AI-powered workflows, global rails, and growth experimentation.

Build and operate Xero’s enterprise Salesforce platform through hands-on development, code reviews, design reviews, incident response, proofs of concept, security improvements, CI/CD automation, release engineering, observability, and agentic change management. The role partners across engineering teams, writes technical documentation, sets platform standards, supports production reliability, and mentors senior engineers while maintaining high deployment and uptime standards.

Maintain and evolve Xero’s large-scale search infrastructure, supporting 50+ million documents, 400TB of data, and 99.9% uptime. Contribute to a search platform modernization project, cluster maintenance, ingestion pipeline integration, and search partnerships. Collaborate with product, architecture, and platform teams while developing search engineering expertise through code reviews and progressively more complex work.