Sr. Site Reliability Engineer I

Axon

5h•Remote

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 senior contributor in the APX SRE organization, you are passionate about delivering solutions to the real-time problems our mission-critical cloud native services encounter—and you’re relentless about the high quality, reliability, and security our customers demand. You will work closely not only with the APX 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. In this role, you’ll have a meaningful impact in Identity and Security, helping teams build and operate systems that protect user identity, strengthen authentication/authorization flows, and meet compliance expectations. You’ll partner closely with engineering, security, and identity stakeholders to raise the bar on secure-by-default reliability practices across the organization. Location: Remote—anywhere in Canada

Requirements

6+ years of applicable software engineering or SRE experience
3+ years experience managing cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or similar.
Experience operating in Kubernetes platforms like AKS, EKS, or similar.
Experience using managed languages such as Python, Go, C#, Java, or similar with demonstrable API and unit/integration testing experience.
Experience utilizing CI/CD platforms to automate provisioning infrastructure, software builds, releases, and automated test pipelines.
Experience using observability tools such as APM, logging, and metrics to assist with debugging issues and reliability improvements.
Experience designing tooling to simplify the operational management of SaaS/PaaS systems, including test automation and validation tooling.
Familiarity with building flexible and testable Infrastructure as Code modules.
Experience or strong working knowledge of identity and access management (IAM) concepts and secure authentication/authorization patterns.
Ability to obtain RCMP Enhanced Reliability Status and Secret clearance.

Nice To Haves

Experience integrating with or supporting Okta (or similar IdP) and identity standards like OIDC/SAML is a strong asset.
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 with high test confidence.
Exemplify cloud-native site reliability best practices with a strong emphasis on testability, automation, and resilience in distributed systems.
Design and implement test strategies and frameworks that validate reliability, performance, and security requirements (e.g., integration, end-to-end, chaos/resiliency, and regression suites).
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 using logs, metrics, traces, and automated diagnostics.
Contribute to platform features and tooling by designing clear, well-tested APIs in Go or Python.
Partner with Identity and Security teams to support and strengthen user identity lifecycle and access controls, authentication and authorization patterns, Okta integrations (e.g., SSO, OIDC/SAML flows, group/role mapping, policy enforcement), and compliance-aligned controls and security best practices.
Help ensure systems meet operational and regulatory expectations through secure engineering practices (least privilege, secrets management, auditability, change control, and secure SDLC).
Author design docs, test plans, threat-aware test cases, and usage guides to promote self-service.
Take calculated risks, champion new ideas, and cultivate your craft.