Principal Engineer

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About the role

  • Principal Engineer shaping cloud-native strategy and architecture at Xero, a platform serving small businesses. Guiding scalable software delivery, technical excellence, and engineering talent across teams.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with multiple engineering teams across the product group to guide, inspire, and elevate technical excellence
  • Shape group-wide technical strategy and bridge organizational boundaries
  • Partner with senior leaders to turn complex requirements into scalable, resilient software solutions
  • Use data-driven decision-making to guide architectural direction and elevate engineering practices
  • Mentor technical talent and lead engineers
  • Solve large-scale systems challenges while enabling safe, secure, and swift delivery of value to small businesses
  • Focus on modern cloud platforms, automated CI/CD pipelines, and microservice architectures
  • Refactor legacy services and enhance scalability, performance, and security standards
  • Define portfolio-wide technical frameworks, SLOs, and strategies to quantify and address technical debt
  • Drive cross-team quality practices to simplify complex engineering workflows
  • Communicate nuanced technical concepts to technical teams and executive leaders
  • Collaborate within a cross-functional engineering collective comprising product management, architecture, and core delivery teams
  • Build robust cloud-native applications and share knowledge through communities of practice

Requirements

  • Demonstrated leadership guiding large-scale cloud-native software projects to successful delivery
  • Proven success mentoring engineers and fostering inclusive, psychologically safe team environments
  • Strong ability to shape long-term architectural vision while balancing technical debt with product delivery
  • Expertise automating delivery tooling, establishing quality standards, and refining operational metrics
  • Skilled at clearly communicating nuanced technical concepts to technical teams and executive leaders
  • Experience with modern cloud platforms
  • Experience with automated CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience with microservice architectures
  • Experience refactoring legacy services
  • Knowledge of scalability, performance, and security standards
  • Ability to define technical frameworks and SLOs
  • Ability to quantify and address technical debt

Benefits

  • Permanent employees are eligible to participate in annual bonus and equity (RSU) programs
  • Performance-based cash or equity (RSUs) incentives may be available depending on role level and company performance
  • World-class health, wellness, and retirement programs
  • Wellbeing days
  • Generous leave
  • Dedicated professional development budgets
  • Flexible hybrid working style
  • Access to modern office spaces
  • Recruitment-process accommodations or adjustments, where needed

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$227,700 - CA$284,600 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

CloudSwift

Location requirements

HybridVancouverCanada

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