
Technical Duty Officers - Xero
View Company Profile- Job Title
- Technical Duty Officers
- Job Location
- Melbourne, AU
- Job Description
- Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive.At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.About the teamXero’s Incident and Problem Management team are a part of the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) organization and are responsible for the build, delivery and ongoing maintenance of robust process and tooling around Incident management.The team is responsible for driving enduring reliability at Xero through robust, consistent and fast response to high severity incidents. They are responsible for building a world class process and ensuring that process matures as the demands of the business grows.About the rolesWe're looking to hire multiple roles at Lead Engineer & Senior Engineer level. These positions require experienced SRE professionals with a strong technical background, deep experience in SRE, a passion for building and delivering robust processes, and extensive experience of leading technical response to high severity cloud issues.They will drive best practice across the business and contribute to the ongoing transformation of the Xero SRE culture. As expert communicators, they will lead technical discussions to identify and track actions associated with and identified during incident situations.Across our SRE function, we're looking for those who are keen to deep dive into causes of incidents and proactively examine the potential causes of future incidents; working with engineering teams to remove the risk of that failure scenario. Ultimately building playbooks and automation to ensure quick and effective responses. In addition, provide ongoing training across the business to ensure the process is well understood and adhered to.These roles will form the backbone of a new team, providing a Technical Duty Officer (TDO) function within the business. TDO’s are incident commanders who use SRE skillsets to drive fast mitigation and enduring resolution of impactful events.What you'll do:
- Own the incident management process, ensuring it drives enduring reliability across all products and services within Xero.
- Provide expert leadership during critical outages, coordinating multiple teams to ensure streamlined decision-making and quick resolution.
- Lead and advocate for the transformation to a world-leading SRE organization, promoting SRE principles within the Engineering Department.
- Promote a customer-focused approach by addressing and mitigating global customer environment issues, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence within the SRE team.
- Develop and implement scalable process frameworks and observability strategies to ensure rapid problem diagnosis, response, and service reliability.
- Collaborate with product teams to thoroughly analyze failures and integrate insights to improve service reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
What you'll bring:- Previous career experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, in an Operations or Engineering environment
- Hands-on experience troubleshooting AWS hosted services
- Networking knowledge and able to troubleshoot TCP/IP, SSL/TLS, DNSSEC, IPsec, and BGP issues.
- Coding experience (preferably Python) building tools, scripting, or automation
- Strong communication (oral & written) skills including the ability to translate technical issues/concepts into agreed actions
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Xero Company Size
Between 2,000 - 5,000 employees
Xero Founded Year
2006
Xero Total Amount Raised
$1,606,395,392
Xero Funding Rounds
View funding detailsPost Ipo Debt
$925,000,000 USD
Post Ipo Debt
$300,000,000 USD
Post Ipo Equity
$26,400,000 USD
Post Ipo Equity
$110,800,000 USD
Post Ipo Equity
$150,000,000 USD
Post Ipo Equity
$49,000,000 USD
Post Ipo Equity
$16,600,000 USD
IPO
$0
Post Ipo Equity
$3,000,000 USD
Post Ipo Equity
$13,595,300 USD
Post Ipo Equity
$12,000,000 USD