Software Engineer II, Cloud Engineering

Axon•San Francisco, CA

8h•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 We’re seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and maintain the AWS-based backbone of our drone detection and analytics platform. You’ll enable our analysts and agents to deliver actionable insights at scale, ensuring our data pipelines, alerting systems, and compute environments are secure, reliable, and efficient. You’ll work closely with the Decisions and Insights team to operationalize data workflows and automate alerting, applying best practices in DevOps and cloud-native architecture. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on systems that directly support Dedrone’s global airspace security mission.

Requirements

4+ years of experience managing AWS infrastructure in production environments.
Experience with CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation for infrastructure as code is a must.
Strong experience with Lambda, Fargate, S3, SNS/SQS, EC2, and CloudWatch.
Hands-on experience with Docker and CI/CD tools.
Solid understanding of Python-based data workflows and microservice design patterns.
Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with a focus on reliability and automation.

Responsibilities

Design, deploy, and manage AWS infrastructure (S3, EC2, Lambda, Fargate, SNS, CloudWatch, IAM, Code Pipelines etc).
Build and maintain data ingestion and processing pipelines, ensuring reliability and scalability.
Set up and monitor notification and alerting systems for data processing and model operations.
Manage Dockerized workloads across Fargate and EC2 for compute-heavy analytics jobs.
Support CI/CD pipelines for model deployment and internal tools.
Optimize cost, performance, and security posture across AWS accounts and services.
Collaborate with DA/DE/DS to operationalize workflows in a cloud-native, automated fashion.