Associate Security Engineer

The role and its impact

As an Associate Security Engineer in our Security Defence team, you'll help design, build and continuously improve the capabilities we rely on to detect, investigate and respond to security threats. You'll work alongside Security Operations, Security Response, Engineering, Product, CX and Legal, turning threat intelligence and security requirements into practical, reliable controls that keep Xero and our customers safe.

You’ll develop your engineering capability through delivery, pairing, incident participation, and learning from more experienced engineers while contributing to the protection of Xero and our customers.

The team and how they connect

Security Defence sits at the heart of how Xero detects and responds to threats, working across SIEM, SOAR, EDR and cloud security tooling to keep our platform and customers protected. The team works closely with Security Operations, Security Response, Engineering and Product to turn insight into action, and prides itself on a high-trust, blameless, learning-oriented culture where questions and curiosity are always welcome.

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