Site Reliability Engineer II

Axon•Boston, MA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Join Axon and be a Force for Good. At Axon, we’re on a mission to Protect Life. We’re explorers, pursuing society’s most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products, we work better together. We connect with candor and care, seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers, communities and each other. Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you’ll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter. Your Impact As a contributor in the SRE organization, you are passionate about delivering solutions to the real-time problems our mission-critical cloud native services encounter. You are also obsessed about achieving the high quality and reliability our customers demand. You will work closely not only with the SRE organization, but your technical deliverables will reach the entire engineering organization to enable product teams to continuously deliver features on the vanguard of innovation. Work Location: This role is based out of our Boston office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in-person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation. We believe that connection fuels innovation, and our in-office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success

Requirements

This position involves handling of classified federal data; under federal regulations, it is open to U.S. citizens only
5+ years of applicable experience
Experience managing cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or similar.
Experience using managed languages such as Python, Go, C#, Java, or similar.
Experience operating in Kubernetes platforms like AKS, EKS, or similar.
Experience utilizing CI/CD platforms to automate provisioning infrastructure, software builds, tests, and releases.
Experience using observability tools such as APM, logging, and metrics to assist with debugging issues.
Experience using Infrastructure as Code tools for provisioning infrastructure such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar.
Builder-operator mindset with proven production ownership (uptime, SLOs, on-call, incident leadership).
Empathy to support the needs of software engineers.

Responsibilities

Build robust, easy-to-use foundational platforms and tools that enable engineering teams to provision services rapidly, consistently, securely, and cost-effective.
Exemplify cloud-native site reliability best practices.
Write code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise.
Employ strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to debug problems in cloud-native distributed systems.
Influence and educate the engineering organization to adopt new and improved architectural patterns.
Provide robust documentation for use by engineers to promote self-service.
Take calculated risks, champion new ideas, and cultivate your craft.