Team Leader - Product SRE

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.

Xero's Product SRE teams will consist of dedicated world class SRE engineers, embedded into product teams to drive enduring reliability, world class observability, and high performing services.

The Team Leader will be responsible for building the team within the product and ensure they're empowered to own and drive reliability across the product landscape; assuming responsibility for the deliverables of the embedded product SRE team.

This position requires a highly technical leader with a strong engineering background, deep experience in SRE, and a passion for building high performing teams.

As a seasoned and relentless leader, they will contribute to the company's Product SRE strategy and contribute to the ongoing transformation of the Xero SRE culture. As an expert communicator, this leader will manage change and ensure the value of robust systems is communicated clearly across the business.

We're looking for established leaders who have led and grown highly technical teams. Whilst the role will focus on leading and inspiring others to do their best work, the ideal candidate would have grown up as an engineer (with intimate technical depth regarding SRE tools and automation) before embarking on their journey into leadership.