Sr. Networking Software Engineer

Axon•Washington, DC

3h•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. 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 APX platform engineering organization on the CloudNet team, 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 with sovereign operations teams that operate Axon systems around the world, and your technical influence will extend to the entire engineering organization because every team needs guidance situating their product in the larger networking reality of the overall Axon ecosystem. Work Location: This role is based out of our Seattle 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

Able to gain CJIS clearance to ensure full US production access
Strong experience working on globally diverse 24/7 high volume systems.
A demonstrated experience and inclination towards networking topics, anything from infrastructure (e.g. VPNs, TLS cert management, debugging network routing issues) to services (e.g. service mesh applications, rate limiting, public and private ingress and egress)
Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to debug problems in cloud native distributed systems.
Familiarity with the GitOps approach to software delivery.
Design and delivery of infrastructure-as-code on public cloud (Axon uses Azure, but other experience is fine)
Experience operating components or services in Kubernetes clusters at scale.
Experience in one or more of these common languages used at Axon: Python, Golang, Scala/Java.
Empathy to support the needs of software engineers with widely varying levels of awareness of networking concepts

Responsibilities

Work on a mixed infrastructure/software team that owns the most important networking-related aspects of Axon systems
Lead Axon’s journey into Istio service mesh applications that are still in their infancy at Axon, but form the foundation of Axon’s future strategy to scale over the next few years.
Be a builder and operator, advancing new features while simultaneously stewarding existing system components subject to strict regulatory regimes like FedRAMP, managing vulnerabilities with timely precision.
Advise software engineers on networking topics through design reviews, ad hoc questions, and pair programming sessions.
Automate routine maintenance of the cloud platform with minimal downtime (4x9s availability). Example: TLS certificate management and automation is a sprawling responsibility in large systems, a mine-field of potential unforced errors that can impact availability