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Prinicipal Engineer

  • Hybrid
  • NZ: Auckland: Xero 4 (96 St Georges Bay Rd, Level 2 & 3)
  • FullTime

Principal Engineer responsible for defining engineering standards and shaping technical architecture across a product group. Works across multiple teams to improve scalability, reliability, performance, and engineering capabilities.

What you'll do

  • Guide engineering practices across multiple teams
  • Define portfolio-wide architectural direction
  • Design scalable, reliable, cloud-native applications
  • Promote quality standards and define SLOs
  • Create frameworks to quantify technical debt and tooling

What they're looking for

  • Proven experience leading large cloud-native technical initiatives
  • Exceptional communication with technical and executive stakeholders
  • Experience contributing to long-term technical roadmaps
  • Strong problem-solving and trade-off decision skills
  • Demonstrated mentoring and delivery practice leadership

Skills

  • cloud-native
  • scalability
  • reliability
  • performance
  • SLOs
  • technical debt frameworks
  • mentoring
  • architecture

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