Senior Engineer - AI Agentic

You'll join a small team that builds the tools, platforms and best practices helping engineers across Xero work with AI. The AI Enablement team sits within Engineering Experience and focuses on helping product engineering teams work faster and better with AI through platforms, tooling and practical guidance. The team works in a hybrid way, with regular in person boost days. You can be based anywhere in Australia, and candidates based in New Zealand are also considered.

Responsibilities

Own tools and platforms end to end, from early experimentation through to production, including run books, monitoring and rollback thinking; Help shape the technical direction of an internal skills marketplace and AI distribution platform; Build an internal skills marketplace and a distribution platform for AI tools used across Xero's engineering org; Develop guidance and best practice for authoring agent skills, including agents for remediation tasks; Collaborate directly with AWS, Microsoft and GitHub on early-access technology not yet available in market; Help guide and challenge a team that is early in its AI journey

Requirements

Hands-on software engineering experience, ideally with C#, .NET and AWS; Experience building internal tools or platforms that other engineers relied on; Production discipline: writing runbooks, setting up monitoring and thinking through rollback before anything goes live; Clear communication and ability to bring people along with an idea; Curiosity about coding agents and AI-native tools; Ability to challenge a decision directly and respectfully, and to learn new things in a structured, quality-focused way