Senior Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering - Observability

Xero automates routine tasks and connects businesses with data, advisors and apps to help supercharge small businesses.
$140,000 - $200,000
Site Reliability
Senior Software Engineer
Hybrid
1,000 - 5,000 Employees
5+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS

Description For Senior Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering - Observability

Xero, a company dedicated to supercharging small businesses through automation and data connectivity, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for their Observability team. This global role, based across multiple locations, focuses on building and implementing sophisticated monitoring and remediation toolsets to enhance observability, reliability, and engineering productivity.

The position offers an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies in a distributed systems environment, where you'll be responsible for enabling engineering teams to improve their practices through monitoring, tracing, and logging solutions. You'll be part of a team that drives reliability standards across the organization, working with various cloud platforms and modern DevOps tools.

The ideal candidate will bring strong experience in production environments, proficiency in object-oriented programming, and expertise in cloud platforms and monitoring solutions. This role combines technical excellence with collaborative skills, as you'll be working closely with teams across the organization to improve system reliability and observability.

Xero offers an impressive benefits package, including generous paid leave, comprehensive healthcare, 401k matching, and 26 weeks of parental leave. The company's human-first culture emphasizes diversity, inclusion, and work-life balance, making it an ideal place for engineers looking to make a significant impact while growing their careers.

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Responsibilities For Senior Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering - Observability

  • Build and maintain tools that reduce toil in managing monitoring and logging platforms
  • Provide guidance around tooling, standards and practices in monitoring, tracing, logging and observability
  • Support product teams in troubleshooting issues around observability support systems
  • Advocate for continuous improvement of systems and processes
  • Enable engineering teams to achieve high standard of system awareness and reliability
  • Participate in on-call duties
  • Contribute to team deliverables and broader SRE initiatives

Requirements For Senior Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering - Observability

Go
JavaScript
Kubernetes
Linux
Python
  • Experience working to improve operational outcomes for software systems in production environments
  • Working knowledge of reliability and observability concepts with distributed systems and microservices
  • Proficiency in one or more object-oriented programming languages (C#, JavaScript, Golang, Python)
  • Experience with cloud platforms, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, IaC, CICD tools
  • Experience in instrumenting multi-team, distributed web applications
  • Experience with monitoring solutions (New Relic, Datadog, Dynatrace, SignalFX, Scalyr, Sumo Logic, Splunk or Open Telemetry)
  • Ability to engage and build relationships with team and internal stakeholders

Benefits For Senior Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering - Observability

401k
Dental Insurance
Medical Insurance
Mental Health Assistance
Parental Leave
Vision Insurance
  • Generous paid leave
  • Dedicated paid leave for physical and mental wellbeing
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance
  • Fertility and family forming financial support
  • 401k contribution matching
  • 26 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers
  • Employee Share Plan
  • Office perks including snacks and break areas
  • Flexible working
  • Career development opportunities

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