Senior Site Reliability Engineer I
About The Position
Axon’s Platform team builds and operates the infrastructure that ingests, stores, and protects digital evidence, including video, audio, photographs, and sensor data. The team is modernizing its platform with Kubernetes-native lifecycle management, GitOps-driven configuration, and infrastructure as code. Its environment includes relational and NoSQL datastores, caches, queues, Kafka, Terraform, and observability tools such as Grafana. In this role, you will set technical direction for platform technologies and make architectural decisions about datastore patterns, scale, reliability, and automation. You will build a Kubernetes-based platform and self-service datastore services, and partner with application teams across Axon on platform adoption, design patterns, performance, and optimization. The position is based in the Atlanta, Seattle, or Boston office and follows a hybrid schedule: onsite Tuesday through Friday and remote on Monday, unless an approved workplace accommodation applies. Axon seeks a U.S. citizen able to gain CJIS clearance for full U.S. production access.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
- U.S. citizenship and ability to gain CJIS clearance for full U.S. production access.
- At least 7 years of professional software engineering experience.
- 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.
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree.
- Background in platform automation tooling or developer experience tooling.
- Experience migrating monoliths to microservices.
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 Axon’s core infrastructure.
- Collaborate with engineering teams across Axon to guide application design patterns for consuming platform services.
- Build and operate a self-service platform that provides datastore solutions with well-defined, best-practice utilization patterns.
- Partner with application teams to diagnose and resolve datastore performance bottlenecks and identify optimization opportunities.
Benefits
- Competitive salary.
- 401(k) with employer match.
- Discretionary paid time off.
- Paid parental leave for all parents.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Fitness programs.
- Emotional and mental wellness support.
- Learning and development programs.
- Office snacks.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
