Principal Engineer

Xero
Vancouver
Workplace: HybridFull timeCAD 227,700 - 284,600 annuallyFunction: Communications, PR & CommunitySkills: ["Leadership","Mentorship","Communication","Strategic thinking","Inclusive leadership"]

Lead group-wide technical excellence by shaping architectural direction and guiding large-scale cloud-native systems across multiple engineering teams. Refactor legacy services, improve scalability, performance, and security, and set portfolio-wide frameworks and SLOs to quantify technical debt. Automate CI/CD and delivery tooling, establish quality standards and operational metrics, and mentor lead engineers while enabling teams to deliver safely, securely, and quickly for small businesses.

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Xero
Xero
21 hours ago

Principal Engineer

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Job Summary

Lead group-wide technical excellence by shaping architectural direction and guiding large-scale cloud-native systems across multiple engineering teams. Refactor legacy services, improve scalability, performance, and security, and set portfolio-wide frameworks and SLOs to quantify technical debt. Automate CI/CD and delivery tooling, establish quality standards and operational metrics, and mentor lead engineers while enabling teams to deliver safely, securely, and quickly for small businesses.
Location: Vancouver
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Communications, PR & Community
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Collaborate across product-group engineering teams to guide technical strategy and architectural direction for scalable, resilient software.
  • •Refactor legacy services to improve scalability, performance, and security standards.
  • •Define portfolio-wide technical frameworks and strategies to manage and quantify technical debt using SLOs and related approaches.
  • •Automate delivery tooling and establish quality practices, operational metrics, and engineering workflows.
  • •Mentor lead engineers and drive cross-team quality practices to support reliable delivery.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 227,700 - 284,600 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceRetirementPaid LeaveLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •Demonstrated leadership guiding large-scale cloud-native software projects to successful delivery.
  • •Proven success mentoring engineers and fostering inclusive, psychologically safe team environments.
  • •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.
  • •Strong communication of nuanced technical concepts to both technical teams and executive leaders.
Experience:Cloud-nativeMicroservices
Skills:LeadershipMentorshipCommunicationStrategic thinkingInclusive leadership
Tech Stack:Cloud-nativeCI/CDMicroservicesSLOsTechnical debt

Company Brief

Xero
Provides cloud-based accounting, payroll, and financial management software for small and medium-sized businesses, enabling invoicing, bank reconciliation, reporting, and integrations with third-party apps globally.
Industry: Enterprise Software
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Wellington, New Zealand
Founded: 2006
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