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Senior Search Engineer

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Senior Search Engineer in Australia

  • Sydney

Responsibilities

  • Build, maintain, and scale production search systems handling hundreds of millions of documents globally.
  • Contribute to Xero’s large-scale search platform rebuild and future search capabilities.
  • Maintain cluster performance and reliability at 99.9% uptime.
  • Contribute to search-specific and generalist software engineering work, including raising and reviewing pull requests.
  • Lead engineering projects and collaborate with engineering, product, infrastructure, and ingestion-platform teams.
  • Work effectively with distributed colleagues across Australia and New Zealand.

Requirements

  • Strong experience in search engineering and operating production search systems at scale.
  • Solid software engineering and development fundamentals.
  • Ability to contribute to both search-specific and generalist engineering work.
  • High standards for code quality and code review.
  • Strong collaborative skills across engineering, product, and infrastructure teams.
  • Exposure to data or AI tooling is preferred but not required.

Benefits

  • Flexible work location within Australia or New Zealand.
  • The team meets in Melbourne approximately every six months for in-person collaboration.
  • Optional boost days allow employees to work from the office and collaborate with the broader Xero community.

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