xero · AU: Sydney (45 Clarence St)
THE ROLE & IMPACT As a Principal Engineer in our Engineering Productivity team, you'll partner with our engineering community to build frictionless, developer-first platform tools that remove barriers and empower engineers to focus on what they do best; shipping high-impact software faster, safer, and at scale. Your work directly shapes how thousands of engineers across Xero work, influencing the tools, practices, and cultures that enable them to succeed. You'll tackle some of the most complex technical challenges across our organisation, from optimising developer workflows to scaling our AI-native development practices. In this role, you're not assigned to a single team; instead, you'll work across our engineering landscape to identify and solve the highest-impact problems - collaborating with multiple teams and stakeholders to drive meaningful change. THE TEAM & HOW THEY CONNECT Engineering Productivity is a specialist team within Xero's engineering organisation, focused on enabling our developer community through platforms and tooling. We collaborate closely with product teams, infrastructure teams, and technical leadership across the organisation to remove friction and accelerate delivery. Our team operates with high trust, psychological safety, and a genuine commitment to diverse perspectives - we believe the best solutions come from teams that think differently. THE TEAM IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON - Inner-Loop Mastery: Supercharging local coding speed and developer experience through our Xero AI Engineering Toolkit - Frictionless Delivery: Accelerating pull request reviews and environment provisioning to unblock our outer-loop development flow - Unified Tooling: Consolidating our developer toolchain to eliminate context switching and cognitive load across our engineering teams - Uncompromising Quality: Balancing speed with engineering excellence using Tech Health Scorecards and sustainable development practices WHERE AND HOW YOU CAN WORK This is a distributed rol…
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