Engineer - Security

Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive. 

At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.

What’s the Role?

As a Security Engineer at Xero, you’ll ensure our platform security systems are deployed and maintained to support the requirements of our teams.

You’ll be hands-on solving problems at scale in a massive AWS environment. In time you'll become deeply familiar with the capabilities of our vendors to build and support modern and adaptable security services that will delight our customers. 

We run mission-critical infrastructure, and you’ll build resilient and scalable systems. Automation will be the standard for you, and you’ll seek new and interesting ways to reduce our operational overheads. Most importantly, you’ll be a team player and get to work with an awesome group of engineers in an amazing and unique working environment.

Meet The Team

The Asset pod provides beautiful security products for Xero to identify threats imposed by vulnerabilities in our workloads, offering a centralized cryptographic encryption service along with management of SSL/TLS certificates. We support cloud security products and tools as a best industry practice. We have 2 main accountabilities and they are: Vulnerability Management & Encryption Management.

If you are an experienced Security Engineer with prior experience or a particular interest in vulnerability management, container security, KMS, SSL/TLS then we are keen to hear from you!

• AWS is our main cloud provider, but we're happy to see people with exposure to any cloud provider
• We use tools such as Tenable, New Relic, Sumo Logic, and Aqua; knowledge of these or anything similar would be great

• This is a hands on, on the tools role; you’ll be the focal point where technical decisions meet strategic thinking.
• Day to day you'll develop software and automation as agreed with the team, help to develop and maintain documentation, and participate in the 24/7 oncall roster as required.
• Regardless of your skill level, you'll be part of a team with a strong sense of collaboration; sharing knowledge, coaching and mentoring other team members.
• Work with other Xero Security Teams and Product teams to ensure that any escalated incidents and problems are resolved in a timely and comprehensive manner.  

• You'll be an excellent communicator with a growth mindset and passion for collaboration
• Previous experience in a engineer role, ideally in an environment that uses AWS and DevOps principles
• Knowledge around IaC, automation tools, and Python scripting
• Good understanding of networking and/or sysadmin fundamentals

• Employee Share Plan, alongside an additional 5 annual Leave days, PLUS bonus holiday Leave.  
• Wellbeing leave, Parental and Partner Leave, Life Insurance and Private Health Insurance.
• Flexible working arrangements and weekly social events. 

Flexible Working!

Xero is continuing to grow and so are the opportunities to join us! You can choose to perform this role:

- In one of our #beautiful offices (Wellington or Auckland)

- Flexibly, through a hybrid of in office and remote working styles

- Permanently remote from anywhere within New Zealand!

Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables businesses, including ours, to better understand and serve customers, attract top talent and innovate successfully. At Xero we embrace diversity and inclusion and value a #challenge mindset.

Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience. If you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be just the right person for this role and Xero. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application and throughout the interview process.

Xero is an NZ Immigration Accredited Employer and Rainbow Tick certified too.