Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Axion • New York, NY

2d • $190,000 - $210,000

About The Position

Axion is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to shape and scale its cloud infrastructure. This hands-on role focuses on designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines; automating deployment workflows; ensuring system reliability and security; and supporting rapid development cycles. The engineer will help build foundational DevOps systems and work closely with engineering leadership on infrastructure decisions that enable product teams to ship with confidence.

Axion is an AI-powered manufacturing quality-intelligence company founded in 2021. Its platform helps manufacturers identify, investigate, and resolve quality issues and improve customer outcomes. The company serves industrial, aerospace, consumer, and medtech manufacturers and is backed by investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, Amplo, Boeing, and RTX Ventures.

Axion describes its culture as collaborative, fast-moving, high-accountability, and ownership-oriented. It values direct communication, feedback, rapid iteration, and meaningful work, while respecting time off and boundaries. The company notes that difficult problems may occasionally require weekend pushes or late-night thinking sessions.

The posting offers work with AI technology, a collaborative and mission-driven team, supportive leadership, generous time off, competitive compensation, equity, benefits, and a lunch stipend. Axion is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.
• Deep hands-on experience with GCP, including Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, or similar services.
• Strong proficiency with Kubernetes, including cluster management, networking, scaling, and troubleshooting.
• Solid Terraform experience writing modular, reusable, production-grade infrastructure as code.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling.
• Strong background with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent.
• Comfort operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with a bias toward action.
• Ability to participate in a shared on-call rotation to support production systems.

Nice To Haves

• Experience using agents to accelerate delivery.
• Experience managing infrastructure for FedRAMP environments.
• Experience at a venture-backed startup.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Axion’s GCP cloud infrastructure to ensure high availability, scalability, and security.
• Own and evolve the Kubernetes-based container orchestration platform and Terraform infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and deployment automation.
• Establish and maintain observability across the stack, including logging, metrics, alerting, and tracing.
• Lead incident response efforts.
• Define and track SLOs and SLIs, promoting reliability and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to security hardening, compliance posture, and cloud cost optimization.
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation to support production systems.

Benefits

• Generous time off.
• Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits.
• Lunch stipend.
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI technology with a tangible impact in manufacturing.
• Collaborative, mission-driven team and supportive leadership.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed