2 days ago
Base Salary
$134k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve distributed tracing infrastructure using OpenTelemetry and Jaeger and drive instrumentation adoption across Axon’s service-oriented architecture.
- Build and operate the Grafana Loki and Alloy log aggregation platform, including expanding use cases beyond Kubernetes event logs.
- Maintain Cortex, Prometheus, and Grafana metrics infrastructure supporting alerting, dashboards, and SLO tracking.
- Create internal tooling and automation for self-service observability, including toolkit commands, on-call helpers, runbook generation, and dashboard scaffolding.
- Manage observability infrastructure as code with Terraform, CDK, ArgoCD, and Helm while addressing capacity, cybersecurity, compliance, and on-call needs.
- Partner with engineering teams to establish instrumentation standards and meaningful service-level objectives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent highly technical field.
- At least 7 years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering.
- Experience with agentic AI tooling or building LLM-powered developer tools.
- Strong Linux systems fundamentals and experience working in Kubernetes-based environments.
- Hands-on experience with one or more LGTM components, including Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Jaeger, Mimir, or Cortex.
- Experience with infrastructure as code; Terraform is strongly preferred and CDK experience is a plus.
- Experience with Golang, Python, or Java.
- United States citizenship and ability to obtain CJIS clearance for full U.S. production access.
- Preferred qualifications include distributed tracing operations, OpenTelemetry instrumentation and pipelines, GitOps workflows, high-volume systems with formal SLA requirements, and debugging complex multi-service distributed systems.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and 401(k) with employer match.
- Discretionary time off and paid parental leave for all employees.
- Medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Fitness programs and emotional and development programs.
- Seattle-based hybrid schedule with onsite work Tuesday through Friday and remote flexibility on Mondays.
- Participation in an on-call rotation.