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.

Platform Elements is a cross-functional, agile infrastructure development team dedicated to enabling Xero development teams to build and ship software efficiently, reliably, and securely. We leverage modern cloud computing tools and continuous integration practices to reduce the cognitive load for Xero Product teams, focusing on a customer-centric approach.

In Networks team, we provide the multi-cloud and VPC networking for all teams through automation. We enable this service to be accessed by any Xero team through the use of APIs and ensure a secure, scalable and automated service.

As an Associate Engineer, you will focus on expanding your knowledge and skills while contributing to the engineering excellence at Xero.

Key responsibilities

Focus on learning and growing your knowledge and skills, contributing to the standard for engineering excellence at Xero, and supporting your team members in building products together
Contribute to our cross functional environment by working towards the same objectives, using modern engineering principles and practices
Undertake software application development on applications in our suite of products (including new ones), contributing to new or improved experiences for our customers, internal and external. You'll help build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale
Seek clarity with technical complexities and be able to demonstrate smart ways to automate
Contribute to data-driven decisions to enhance the effectiveness of Xero's network solutions

You will have the opportunity to use the below technologies:

AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes
Infrastructure (and everything else) as code using Terraform and Cloudformation
Management toolings around DNS, IP and network routes
Alerting and monitoring (Sumologic, New Relic)

About You

Eager to learn and grow in cloud networking and infrastructure
Basic understanding of networking principles and cloud platforms
Interest in automating infrastructure and improving operational efficiency
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team
Open to feedback and continuously improving your technical abilities

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.

Associate Engineer

Key responsibilities

You will have the opportunity to use the below technologies:

About You

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