Staff Product Engineer, R&D
Stryker
Principal Engineer, Data Reliability
Xero
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Mateo • California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $280,000 - $325,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
CloudPostgres
About the role
- Create software: Work on initiatives that span multiple teams to improve how Xero creates and delivers software; guide engineering practices and advocate for new technology and tooling; guide teams in defining and implementing SLOs; ensure security and data guidelines are implemented.
- Deliver Golden Pathway tooling: Guide the strategy and implementation of golden pathway tooling to remove complexity and enable Xero’s Engineering Teams to innovate on top of the database platform.
- Resolve issues: Focus on systemic and strategic prevention of issues by implementing practices and tooling that make world class engineering easy; identify and help refocus efforts when projects veer off course; participate in the team on-call roster.
- Engineering standards & frameworks: Create and promote Xero-wide and portfolio-level standards and frameworks; research industry best practice and implement as appropriate; represent team needs and shape DevOps culture and technical debt reduction.
- Deliver infrastructure in a production environment: Guide teams in delivering scalable and efficient infrastructure, balancing automation, performance, and customer experience; ensure pipelines are fit for purpose; coach engineers to ensure software is running as expected and prevent customer-facing problems; contribute to design of scalable systems.
Requirements
- Proven hands-on expertise and deep technical knowledge spanning both software engineering and DevOps
- Extensive experience in hands-on technical leadership positions
- Multiple years of experience running PostgreSQL workloads at scale
- Previous experience modernising database workloads to PostgreSQL
- Experience running migrations from Self Hosted infrastructure to cloud managed
- Technical leadership experience on cloud-native platforms with focus on scalability, reliability, and performance
- Experience leading discussions and implementation for scaling products by 10x users
- Proven experience leading large complex projects to delivery
- Strong communicator with ability to influence cross-functionally and present at executive level
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and coach engineers across all levels
- Participation in on-call roster for Principal Engineer role
Benefits
- very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!)
- dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing
- Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family
- employee resource groups
- wellbeing programming and allowances
- medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance
- fertility and family forming financial support
- 401k contribution matching
- 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers
- Employee Share Plan / employee share program
- beautiful offices with snacks and break areas
- flexible working
- career development
- many other benefits that reflect our human value
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
software engineeringDevOpsPostgreSQLcloud-native platformsscalabilityreliabilityperformancedatabase migrationsinfrastructure deliveryautomation
Soft skills
technical leadershipcommunicationinfluencementoringcoachingproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingcross-functional collaborationproject managementexecutive presentation
