Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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🔥 5 hours ago

🇦🇺 Australia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Where this job comes from

Posted on Xero's careers page, not through a job board

First seen by Remote Rocketship 5 hours ago

Still open on Xero's site. Checked 45 minutes ago.

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Xero

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2006

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

💰 $300M Post-IPO Debt on 2018-09

Financial Services • SaaS • B2B

Xero is a provider of cloud-based accounting software designed to help small businesses, accountants, and bookkeepers manage their finances in real time. The platform offers a range of features including billing, expense tracking, and VAT returns. Xero also integrates with various apps to streamline financial management and control cash flow for businesses. It supports a wide range of business types, including non-profits, self-employed individuals, and those in construction and trades. With over 4. 2 million subscribers worldwide, Xero offers different pricing plans to cater to various business needs. Additionally, Xero has an affiliate program and offers resources such as webinars and guides to assist new users.

📋 Description

• Set technical direction for software reliability and observability across the product landscape • Build standardised, intelligent observability systems supporting automated, agentic-first development practices • Design robust data pipelines and telemetry frameworks • Support colleagues and product teams across the organisation • Build standardised data pipelines and telemetry layer architectures • Implement OpenTelemetry standards and vendor-agnostic instrumentation across distributed applications • Drive platform efficiency, cost optimisation, and monitoring performance metrics across cloud systems • Design automated alerting and reliability scorecards for incident investigation and system health tracking • Collaborate with the central Observability team, platform organisation, and product squads across the business • Establish shared reliability benchmarks and support product squads

🎯 Requirements

• Experience managing distributed tracing, metrics, and log aggregation within large-scale cloud environments • Practical familiarity with OpenTelemetry standards and vendor-agnostic instrumentation techniques • Deep understanding of distributed systems architecture and diagnosing platform behavior under high load • Strong interest in artificial intelligence tooling, intelligent operational workflows, and data model automation • Demonstrated ability to collaborate across engineering teams, share knowledge, and lift platform standards • Proactive approach to problem-solving and ownership of complex reliability challenges from design to execution • Candidates must be based across Eastern time zones in Australia • Candidates must have appropriate working rights for Australia

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible remote working arrangements • Option to work entirely from home or access office spaces in Sydney and Melbourne • Regular opportunities for team connection • Flexible working model • Background checks may include credit and criminal history checks

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