Join Xero as a Data Engineer - DevOps

Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform designed to help small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive. Our purpose at Xero is to make life better for small businesses, their advisors, and communities around the world. We centralize this purpose in everything we do.

We support our team members to achieve their best work so they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information, and connections. When they succeed, they make a difference. When millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world becomes a more beautiful place.

How You’ll Make an Impact

As a DevOps Engineer in the Marketing Data Science, Analytics & Insights team, you'll be responsible for provisioning and maintaining critical data infrastructure for large and complex data pipelines and applications. This is an 18-month fixed-term opportunity.

What You'll Do

• Deploy data pipelines following DevOps principles, incorporating automated code and data testing.
• Conceptualize data security designs and contribute to implementation plans.
• Champion automation and build/maintain CI/CD pipelines for all data products and applications.
• Work collaboratively with other members of the Data teams.

What You'll Bring

• Strong data and technical background demonstrating innovation, initiative, and a passion for data.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Teamcity, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Harness, or Circleci.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code utilities like Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Solid understanding of DevOps practices.
• Strong knowledge in SQL, Snowflake, dbt, Python, AWS, AWS Serverless (Lambda Functions), SQS, SNS, S3, Glue.
• Clear and concise oral and written communication, including technical documentation.
• Experience with orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow or Prefect.
• Proficient in the rollout and maintenance of cloud infrastructure.

Why Xero?

At Xero, we offer very generous paid leave to use however you like, plus statutory holidays. You’ll also have dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental well-being, as well as access to mental health care for you and your family through our Employee Assistance Program. We provide health insurance, life insurance, and income protection. Our wellness and sports programs, employee resource groups, and 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers further demonstrate our commitment to our team.

We also offer an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working arrangements, career development opportunities, and many other benefits that reflect our human values. At Xero, you’ll do the best work of your life.

Company Name: Xero

Job Title: Data Engineer - DevOps