Senior AI Tooling Engineer — Internal Platform Lead

Xero; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Xero is seeking a hands-on software engineer to join the AI Enablement team across Australia. You will own internal AI tooling end to end—from early experimentation to production, including run books, monitoring and rollback thinking that keeps systems reliable for engineers.

You'll shape the technical direction of an internal skills marketplace and AI distribution platform used across the engineering organisation, collaborating with AWS, Microsoft and GitHub on early-access technology not yet

Qualifications

• Hands-on software engineering experience with C#, .NET and AWS.
• Proven ability to build internal tools or platforms used by engineers.
• Production discipline: write runbooks, implement monitoring, plan rollback.
• Strong communication and ability to bring others along with ideas.
• Curious about AI-native tooling and agents.

Responsibilities

• Build internal AI tooling and distribution platforms used across Xero's engineering org.
• Own projects end-to-end from experimentation through production.
• Collaborate with vendors like AWS, Microsoft and GitHub on early-access tech.
• Develop and document best practices for AI agent skills and remediation tasks.
• Maintain runbooks, monitoring and rollback strategies.

Skills

C#

.NET

AWS

Python

TypeScript

Tools

AWS

Job description

Xero is seeking a hands-on software engineer to join the AI Enablement team across Australia. You will own internal AI tooling end to end—from early experimentation to production, including run books, monitoring and rollback thinking that keeps systems reliable for engineers.

You'll shape the technical direction of an internal skills marketplace and AI distribution platform used across the engineering organisation, collaborating with AWS, Microsoft and GitHub on early-access technology not yet