Senior Site Reliability Engineer I
About The Position
Axon is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for its Platform team, which supports cloud infrastructure handling large volumes of digital evidence. 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 Grafana. The role sets technical direction for platform technologies, including architectural decisions, standardization, and approaches to scale, resilience, and automation. The engineer will build a Kubernetes-based platform for automated infrastructure lifecycle management and a self-service platform for datastore solutions, and partner with application teams on platform usage, database 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, subject to approved workplace accommodations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
- United States 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, with 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.
- Snacks in the offices.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
