Axon

Senior Site Reliability Engineer I

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2 days ago
Boston, MA, USAEntry Level
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$134k - $215k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve distributed tracing infrastructure using OpenTelemetry and Jaeger.
  • Build and operate the Grafana Loki and Alloy log aggregation platform.
  • Maintain Cortex, Prometheus, and Grafana metrics infrastructure for alerting, dashboards, and SLO tracking.
  • Develop internal observability automation, including toolkit commands, on-call helpers, runbook generation, and dashboard scaffolding.
  • Manage observability infrastructure as code with Terraform, CDK, ArgoCD, and Helm.
  • Partner with engineering teams to define instrumentation standards, drive tracing adoption, and establish meaningful service SLOs.
  • Participate in capacity management, cybersecurity and compliance work, and on-call rotations.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent highly technical field.
  • 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 with Kubernetes-based environments.
  • Hands-on experience with LGTM components such as Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Jaeger, or Mimir/Cortex.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code; Terraform is strongly preferred and CDK is a plus.
  • Experience with Golang, Python, or Java.
  • United States citizenship and ability to gain CJIS clearance for full U.S. production access.
  • Preferred experience deploying and operating distributed tracing systems and familiarity with OpenTelemetry instrumentation, collectors, and pipelines.
  • Preferred familiarity with GitOps workflows, 24/7 high-volume systems with formal SLA requirements, and debugging complex distributed systems.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and 401(k) with employer match.
  • Discretionary time off.
  • Paid parental leave for all employees.
  • Medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • Fitness programs and emotional and development programs.
  • Office snacks.
  • Hybrid work in the Boston office, with onsite work Tuesday through Friday and remote work on Mondays.

Tech Stack

GoGrafanaHelmJavaKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPythonSplunkTerraform

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
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