Senior Search Engineer — Scale & Reliability

Apply; Australia; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Xero is seeking a Senior Engineer for its Search team to maintain and evolve one of the largest search clusters in the Southern Hemisphere. You will help keep hundreds of millions of documents at global scale with 99.9% uptime, and contribute to a major platform rebuild shaping Xero's growth.

You will own and contribute across search-specific and generalist engineering work, review pull requests, and lead projects with a high quality mindset in a distributed team across Melbourne, NSW and NZ.

Qualifications

• Experience building and scaling search systems in production.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to contribute broadly.
• Commitment to quality and well-reviewed code.
• Collaborative work across distributed teams.
• Bonus: exposure to data or AI tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve a large-scale search platform.
• Lead projects and review pull requests.
• Collaborate with ingestion and platform teams.

Skills

Search engineering

Software development

Code quality

Collaborative work

Data/AI tooling exposure

Job description

Xero is seeking a Senior Engineer for its Search team to maintain and evolve one of the largest search clusters in the Southern Hemisphere. You will help keep hundreds of millions of documents at global scale with 99.9% uptime, and contribute to a major platform rebuild shaping Xero's growth.

You will own and contribute across search-specific and generalist engineering work, review pull requests, and lead projects with a high quality mindset in a distributed team across Melbourne, NSW and NZ.