Senior AI Systems Engineer - Production & Scale

Xero Limited; Sydney; Híbrido; AUD 180.000 - 260.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Xero is seeking a production-minded software engineer to design, build and own the backend systems powering its AI features. You will shape scale, cost and reliability for LLM-driven experiences used by millions of small businesses.

You’ll work with AI Products to set engineering standards, mentor engineers, and partner across Xero to make data usable and systems dependable. The role emphasizes engineering practice over ML training, with hybrid work options and opportunities to impact production

Formación

• Track record of designing, shipping and operating production-grade backend systems at scale.
• Experience building and operating production systems for LLM or agentic workloads.
• Strong system design fundamentals and excellent coding in Python or web-scale languages.
• Experience with APIs, cloud infrastructure (ideally AWS), CI/CD and observability.
• Experience running services in production, on-call and incident response.
• Solid SQL and experience with large-scale data processing.
• Excellent communication to explain complex tech to business and tech audiences.
• Coaching mindset and ability to set engineering standards and mentor others.

Responsabilidades

• Design and build production systems powering Xero AI features.
• Own engineering standards and mentor engineers.
• Collaborate across AI Products to enable deployable ML/AI experiences.
• Ensure reliability, latency and cost targets.
• Operate services in production and manage on-call incidents.

Conocimientos

Backend systems design

Production systems

LLM workloads

Python coding

APIs and cloud

CI/CD observability

On-call incidents

SQL & data

Communication

Mentoring engineers

Herramientas

AWS

MLflow

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Spark

Descripción del empleo

Xero is seeking a production-minded software engineer to design, build and own the backend systems powering its AI features. You will shape scale, cost and reliability for LLM-driven experiences used by millions of small businesses.

You’ll work with AI Products to set engineering standards, mentor engineers, and partner across Xero to make data usable and systems dependable. The role emphasizes engineering practice over ML training, with hybrid work options and opportunities to impact production