Axon

Senior Site Reliability Engineer I

Axon
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14 days ago

Base Salary

$134k - $215k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Drive agentic coding workflows, infrastructure as code practices, and technical code reviews across the platform.
  • Lead long-term architectural decisions and standardization efforts for Axon’s platform technologies.
  • Design and build a Kubernetes-based platform that automates lifecycle management of core infrastructure.
  • Guide application design patterns related to platform service consumption.
  • Build and operate a self-service platform that provides datastore solutions with best-practice utilization patterns.
  • Partner with application teams to diagnose and resolve datastore performance bottlenecks and optimization opportunities.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering is required; a master’s degree is a plus.
  • U.S. citizenship and ability to gain CJIS clearance for full U.S. production access are required.
  • At least 7 years of professional software engineering experience is required; platform automation or developer experience tooling is strongly preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to design and operate complex distributed systems at scale.
  • Experience with agentic AI tooling or building LLM-powered developer tools.
  • Deep experience with microservice architectures and patterns; monolith migration experience is a plus.
  • Strong command of cloud-hosted services and architectures across Azure, AWS, or GCP.
  • Hands-on experience with observability platforms such as Grafana, Datadog, or New Relic.
  • Familiarity with relational and NoSQL datastores and deep expertise in at least one such as MySQL, Cassandra, or PostgreSQL.
  • Experience designing and operating message queue systems such as Kafka.
  • Proficiency with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and 401(k) with employer match.
  • Discretionary paid time off and paid parental leave for all parents.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Fitness programs and emotional and mental wellness support.
  • Learning and development programs and snacks in the offices.
  • Based in Axon’s Atlanta, Seattle, or Boston office on a hybrid schedule, with onsite work Tuesday through Friday and remote work on Mondays unless an accommodation is approved.

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DevOpsSite Reliability
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