Senior Data Engineer

The role and its impact

As a Senior Engineer working on Xero's data platform, you will play a vital role in maintaining and enhancing the systems that power analytics for the entire organisation. You will take ownership of technical problems from design through to implementation, ensuring our internal users have access to trustworthy and timely data at scale.

Your work focuses on the architecture of modern cloud data platform enabling self-serve capabilities to build data products to its users ,. By improving observability and reliability across the platform, you will directly influence how data informs critical business decisions across Xero.

The team and how they connect

You will join the Data Platform Pod, a collaborative group dedicated to building shared platform capabilities that support every internal employee at Xero. The team works closely with partner analytics groups to personalise data flows and improve the overall developer experience across our core data infrastructure.

The team is currently working on

• Our current stack includes Snowflake, dbt, and Prefect for orchestration, supported by Terraform and AWS for infrastructure management.

• We are refining our observability practices using tools like Monte Carlo to ensure high standards of data quality and operational excellence.

• The team is implementing a new data strategy to interact closely with external analytics teams as immediate partners.

• Future projects involve exploring AI-assisted workflows and further developing our data infrastructure

Where and how you can work

While our preference is for someone based in Melbourne to connect with the majority of the team, we are open to candidates in Sydney. We embrace a hybrid working model that balances the flexibility of remote work with purposeful office time to collaborate, share knowledge, and build team culture.

Here are some of the things we are looking for

• You bring extensive experience in building and operating modern self serve cloud data platforms, with a well-rounded grasp of ingestion and orchestration.

• Your background includes working with infrastructure-as-code and container environments such as Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS.

• In depth understanding of core DevOps and Software Engineering practices; such as test driven development (TDD), automated testing, CI/CD, version control ect.

• Possessing a proactive ownership mindset allows you to identify and resolve complex technical challenges while thinking beyond immediate tasks.

• Technical mentorship is something you enjoy, whether through pairing sessions, code reviews, or contributing to platform-wide design discussions.

• An appreciation for Python or SQL will help you navigate and optimise our data transformation layers effectively.

• Comfort with ambiguity means you thrive when experimenting with new components and iterating on platform features in a changing environment.

Apply even if your experience isn't a perfect match! At Xero, we hire based on your skills, passion, and the unique perspective you can bring to enhance our culture and team.