Associate Engineer

Xero; Auckland; On-site; NZD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in New Zealand is seeking an Engineer to join their Tooling team. The role involves enhancing tool reliability, managing CI/CD setups, and contributing to Infrastructure as Code initiatives. Candidates should have DevOps experience and proficiency in programming languages.

Benefits

Generous paid leave

Employee Assistance Program

Free medical insurance

Flexible working hours

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in supporting DevOps-style infrastructure and CI/CD tooling environments.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform.
• Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language.

Responsibilities

• Support the infrastructure and CI/CD setup of internal tools.
• Build automation and integrations for tool usage.
• Document setup instructions and best practices.

Skills

DevOps-style infrastructure support

CI/CD tooling environments

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Distributed version control

Programming or scripting (Python, C#, .NET)

Automation

Documentation skills

Tools

Terraform

SonarQube

LaunchDarkly

Playwright

Job description

Our Purpose

At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

About the role

We’re looking for an Engineer to join our Tooling team—focused on improving the reliability, usability, and integration of the internal tools we own and support across the engineering organisation. You’ll help maintain and evolve the infrastructure that powers these tools, ensuring they're scalable, secure, and easy to adopt. This is a hands-on engineering role where you’ll contribute to building automation, improving developer experience, and enabling better governance through quality tooling.

You’ll work closely with senior engineers, delivery teams, and stakeholders to uplift how tools are provisioned, integrated into pipelines, and supported at scale.

What you’ll do

• Support the infrastructure and CI/CD setup of tools we own—such as SonarQube, Playwright, LaunchDarkly, and others
• Build automation and integrations that improve how engineering teams adopt and use our tooling
• Contribute to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to provision and manage resources—preferably using Terraform
• Participate in improving the reliability and maintainability of our tooling stack through monitoring, testing, and feedback loops
• Collaborate with teams to ensure tools are well-integrated into their workflows and CI/CD pipelines
• Assist in documenting setup instructions, best practices, and operational runbooks
• Participate in on-call rotations to support uptime and issue resolution for shared tools
• Continuously seek ways to improve developer experience through tooling enhancements
• Contribute to internal technical discussions and engineering improvement initiatives

What you’ll bring

• Experience in supporting DevOps-style infrastructure and CI/CD tooling environments
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform
• Understanding of distributed version control (e.g., Git) and CI/CD pipelines
• Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, C#, .NET)
• Interest in internal tooling, developer enablement, and automation
• Experience supporting or integrating tools like SonarQube, LaunchDarkly, or Playwright is a plus
• Strong documentation and communication skills to support tool adoption across teams
• Willingness to participate in support rotations and learn from incidentsGrowth mindset and eagerness to learn new tools and technologies

Why Xero?

Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, free medical insurance, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.