Senior SRE: Observability & Data Platform

Xero Limited

New South Wales

Hybrid

AUD 150,000 - 210,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

Xero Limited is seeking a senior observability-focused engineer to shape reliability and telemetery capabilities across the product landscape. You will set technical direction and build standardised, intelligent observability systems that enable agentic development practices and help product teams improve reliability.

In this role you will design data pipelines and telemetry frameworks, support colleagues across the organisation, and standardise performance monitoring while accelerating how

Qualifications

Experience implementing distributed tracing, metrics, and log aggregation in large-scale cloud environments.
Familiarity with OpenTelemetry standards and vendor-agnostic instrumentation.
Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture and reliability challenges.
Interest in AI tooling and automated operational workflows.

Responsibilities

Build standardised data pipelines and telemetry layer architectures.
Implement OpenTelemetry standards across distributed applications.
Drive platform efficiency, cost optimisation, and monitoring performance metrics.
Design automated alerting and reliability scorecards for incident investigation.

Skills

Distributed tracing

OpenTelemetry

Telemetry

Cloud systems

Reliability engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing tools

Metrics collectors

Log aggregation

Job description

In this role you will design data pipelines and telemetry frameworks, support colleagues across the organisation, and standardise performance monitoring while accelerating how

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