Xero
Search Engineer
AU: Melbourne: (260 Burwood Rd), Remote. Posted a month ago
The role
You will own the infrastructure, CI/CD and data pipelines for a large search cluster. You will design infrastructure automation and Terraform, build data pipelines, and maintain platform speed, resilience, and cost effectiveness.
What you will do
- Own the infrastructure, CI/CD and data pipelines
- Design and run infrastructure automation and Terraform
- Build pipelines that move and index data at scale
- Keep the platform fast, resilient and cost effective
- Lead design decisions on scaling, reliability and capacity
- Review pull requests
- Own a major project within 12 months
- Own monitoring, alerting and incident response
Required qualifications
- Experience running production infrastructure in the cloud
- Hands-on skills in Github Actions and Terraform
- Experience designing and operating infrastructure pipelines that support complex platform scale environments
- Solid software engineering skills
- Clear communication skills
- Ability to work well across remote teams
- Ability to explain trade-offs to people outside engineering
Nice to have
- Search or information retrieval experience
About the company
Xero is rebuilding and expanding its search platform for its next stage of growth.