Engineer - Data Reliability

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 role

As Xero's next Engineer across Data Reliability, you will be passionate about stable and secure systems management practices and be detail-oriented and systematic. You will work with development teams to evangelize good database practices and champion database reliability across Product teams. You will make an impact in your role by finding ways to automate tasks while creating a culture focused on continually improving the operation of Xero's data persistence technology.

About you

To be successful in this role you will need to have experience in:
PostgreSQL (management and development)
2+ years managing production databases
Relational databases at scale
Familiarity with distributed systems
Can read a variety of programming languages and comfort with submitting Pull Requests
Powershell scripting
Experience with Microsoft SQL Server
Experience with MySQL
Cloud Database Hosting Services

You will be responsible for:

Embracing and championing best practices for database safety and performance.
Contributing to automating every aspect of datastore management
Collaborating with a wide variety of Product Team engineers to help them build reliable and scalable services
Creating auto-remediation systems
Data modeling and data structure design skills
Advanced troubleshooting and monitoring of our systems to ensure adequate Service Level Objectives and capacity requirement
Helping define the tools and philosophies used among the team around deployment, monitoring, testing and security

Xero is an NZ Immigration Accredited Employer and Rainbow Tick certified too.
Please include a cover letter in your application, telling us why you're a great fit for this position.