5 hours ago
Remote, Australia +3 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Build automated tooling and custom Kubernetes operators for storage resizing, alert provisioning, and reliability-by-default capabilities.
- Enhance telemetry pipelines to extract AWS-specific metrics from managed services and route actionable alerts to product teams.
- Design and implement chaos engineering scenarios to test infrastructure failure modes.
- Build API load-shedding and rate-limiting mechanisms to protect services from traffic surges.
- Coordinate incident management rituals, participate in on-call responses, and conduct post-incident analysis.
- Partner with product and infrastructure teams to implement resilient design patterns and resolve shared reliability gaps.
- Share incident commander responsibilities and convert operational learnings into long-term systemic improvements.
Requirements
- Solid experience in site reliability engineering or DevOps and diagnosing and strengthening distributed systems.
- Practical experience managing containerized workloads in Kubernetes and running infrastructure on cloud platforms such as AWS.
- Practical coding proficiency in Golang, Python, or C#.
- Familiarity with incident management, on-call responses, and post-incident reviews.
- Curiosity about applying modern AI tools to operational challenges.
- Strong initiative, communication skills, and ability to connect reliability investments to customer needs and business outcomes.
Benefits
- Remote work available anywhere in Australia.
- Office hubs available in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane.
- Flexible working routine with work-from-home options, collaborative office spaces, team gatherings, and boost days.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
About Xero
Xero builds cloud-based accounting software for small businesses and their advisors, covering invoicing, bank reconciliation, payroll, expenses, and reporting. It sells subscriptions and supports an extensive ecosystem of connected bank feeds and third‑party apps via APIs and an app marketplace. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand, Xero is a public company dual‑listed on the NZX and ASX.