Sr. Software Engineer II

Axon•Washington, DC

9d•$148,500 - $237,600•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 APX platform engineering organization on the CloudNet team, you focus on solving real-time problems for mission-critical cloud-native services—and on the quality and reliability our customers expect. You'll work closely with teams operating Axon systems around the world, and your technical influence extends across engineering because every product needs sound guidance for how it connects and scales in Axon's overall networking picture. A typical week blends Kubernetes networking, service mesh (for example Istio and Envoy), ingress and gateways, TLS and certificate automation, DNS and public-edge routing, and production incidents where fixing the issue means tracing HTTP, DNS, load balancing, and cloud edges end to end. In this role, you'll ship automation and reliable cloud-based platforms (we have no data centers, so there is no rack-and-stack in this role).

Requirements

Six or more years working on globally diverse, 24/7, high-volume production systems.
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science
At least one strong track record from the following (we do not expect every candidate to match every item):
Operating critical components or services in Kubernetes clusters at meaningful scale (ingress, gateways, mesh, or similar).
Infrastructure-as-code and automated delivery on public cloud (Axon uses Azure; other major clouds are fine).
Production software in Python, Go, or Java (including Scala) for infrastructure, tooling, or reliable services—not only one-off scripts.
Production ownership of service mesh, ingress, TLS/certificate automation, DNS or public-edge patterns, or secure east-west traffic in cloud environments.
Excellent problem-solving skills debugging cloud-native distributed systems (HTTP/TLS, DNS, load balancing, Kubernetes networking).
Familiarity with a GitOps-style approach to software and infrastructure delivery.
Empathy for software engineers with widely varying depth in networking—meeting people where they are, without talking past them.
Note: This role is centered on cloud-native platform engineering and software-backed automation. It is a weaker match if your experience is primarily traditional enterprise network operations (for example campus switching or appliance-only administration) without substantial Kubernetes operations, software delivery, or infrastructure-as-code.

Responsibilities

Work on a mixed infrastructure and software team that owns critical platform networking for Axon's cloud systems: mesh and ingress, TLS and certificate automation, DNS and edge routing, and the automation that keeps those paths safe and observable.
Advance Axon's use of Istio-style service mesh patterns that underpin how we scale—building features, hardening what runs in production, and improving how we roll out change.
Act as a builder and operator: ship infrastructure-as-code and software-backed controls, steward components that must meet strict regulatory expectations (including FedRAMP where applicable), and address vulnerabilities with timely, disciplined change.
Advise software engineers through design reviews, ad hoc questions, and pair programming when connectivity, ingress, mesh, or TLS behavior is on the critical path.
Automate operations so the platform stays highly available (targeting four-nines-class reliability for these components). Example: TLS certificate management and automation at scale—where small mistakes can become customer-visible outages if left manual.