Engineer - SRE

XeroSydneyHybridFull-time1 week ago

Site Reliability Engineer role at Xero, focusing on embedding reliability into a global platform of over 3,000 services. Requires experience in SRE/DevOps, Kubernetes, AWS, and coding in Golang, Python, or C#, with a strong emphasis on automation, chaos engineering, and incident management.

What you'll do

Shift reliability into a front-row discipline, moving beyond reactive fixes to uncover and resolve systemic resilience challenges
Partner closely with product teams to design reliability by default
Build automated tooling and champion chaos engineering experiments
Coordinate incident management rituals and post-incident analysis
Introduce load-shedding mechanisms
Develop custom Kubernetes operators to automate storage resizing, alert provisioning, and reliability-by-default capabilities
Enhance telemetry pipelines to extract AWS-specific metrics and route actionable alerts
Implement chaos engineering scenarios to test infrastructure failure modes
Build API load shedding and rate limiting to protect services against traffic surges
Share incident commander responsibilities across regions

What you need

Must-have

KubernetesAWSGolangPythonC#Site Reliability EngineeringDevOpsIncident Management

Soft skills

Strong agency and initiativeClear communicationProactive problem-solvingCuriosity

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