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Senior Search Engineer responsible for maintaining and scaling Xero’s global search platform, supporting hundreds of millions of documents with 99.9% uptime. The role includes contributing to a multi-year platform rebuild, developing search capabilities, collaborating on ingestion pipelines, reviewing code, leading projects, and partnering with engineering, product, and infrastructure teams. Experience with production search systems and strong software engineering fundamentals is required; data or AI tooling experience is advantageous.

Lead technical initiatives to enhance engineering excellence, mentor teams, simplify challenges, and advocate for cloud-native architectures and DevOps practices.

Lead a distributed data engineering team to design, build, and maintain core data models and real-time data flows on an AWS/Snowflake platform. Balance strategic architecture and hands-on delivery, manage risks and dependencies, establish SLOs and DataOps practices, and coach senior engineers to improve platform quality and performance.

The Principal Software Engineer will lead mobile application development, bridge technical and product strategies, and ensure engineering excellence at Xero.

Lead company-wide strategic and operational initiatives: shape long-term strategy, run annual planning, OKRs and Board reporting, produce market intelligence, perform quantitative analysis and business cases, drive governance and cross-functional execution, and apply AI tools to improve ways of working.

Lead strategic planning, market intelligence, and operational rhythms (annual planning, OKRs, Board reporting). Structure ambiguous problems with quantitative analysis, build business cases, run governance and cross-functional delivery, and embed AI-enabled ways of working to improve speed and quality of outputs.

Lead design and implementation of AI research and production infrastructure. Mentor junior engineers, and collaborate to enhance data usability, solving complex technical challenges.

Lead design and implementation of large-scale distributed production systems powering generative AI features. Own architecture, mentor engineers, manage technical debt, operationalize ML/LLM models, and collaborate with scientists to productionize research using Python, SQL, Spark/Dask, AWS, and Kubernetes.

Develop and improve data and AI governance frameworks, translate policies into practical guidance, deliver data and AI literacy programs, and advise cross-functional teams on responsible AI, privacy, risk, transparency, bias, and regulatory compliance. The role partners with Product, Security, Privacy, Regulatory, Risk, and engineering teams to implement governance across Xero.