Senior Engineer - AI Agentic

The role

You will build tools, platforms, and best practices to help engineers at Xero work with AI. You will own projects from early experimentation through to production, including monitoring and rollback.

What you will do

• Build an internal skills marketplace and a distribution platform for AI tools
• Develop guidance and best practice for authoring agent skills
• Collaborate with AWS, Microsoft and GitHub on early-access technology
• Own tools end to end from experimentation to production
• Write runbooks, set up monitoring and plan rollbacks

Required qualifications

• Hands-on software engineering experience
• Built internal tools or platforms that other engineers relied on
• Production discipline including writing runbooks, setting up monitoring and thinking through rollbacks
• Clear communication skills
• Curiosity about coding agents and AI-native tools
• Ability to challenge decisions directly and respectfully
• Ability to learn new things in a structured, quality-focused way

Nice to have

• Experience with C#, .NET and AWS

About the company

Xero is an engineering organisation with an AI Enablement team that focuses on helping product engineering teams work faster and better with AI.