Engineering Manager, AI DB Platform & Cloud Migrations

AI Chopping Block, Inc.; City of Melbourne, Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Xero is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead Database Reliability Engineering across Australia and New Zealand. You will drive the AI DBA platform, modernise our databases, and guide two specialist teams through complex infrastructure challenges in a high-scale environment.

You will coach engineers toward strategic consulting, enable product teams to own their data, and partner with AWS/Aurora Postgres to reshape how databases are managed and operated.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading large-scale infrastructure projects.
• Ability to mentor engineers toward strategic consulting and product ownership.
• Track record of migrating databases to cloud-managed services.

Responsibilities

• Deliver AI DBA platform to automate incident response.
• Oversee two teams across Australia and New Zealand.
• Migrate databases to cloud services like RDS/Aurora Postgres.
• Foster proactive, strategic database architecture and performance improvements.

Skills

Database architecture

Team leadership

Coaching engineers

Strategic consulting

Cloud migrations

Tools

Aurora Postgres

AWS

RDS

SQL Server

Job description

Xero is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead Database Reliability Engineering across Australia and New Zealand. You will drive the AI DBA platform, modernise our databases, and guide two specialist teams through complex infrastructure challenges in a high-scale environment.

You will coach engineers toward strategic consulting, enable product teams to own their data, and partner with AWS/Aurora Postgres to reshape how databases are managed and operated.