Senior Site Reliability Engineer I

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Drive agentic coding workflows, infrastructure as code practices, and technical code reviews across the platform
• Lead long term architectural decisions and standardization efforts for Axon's platform technologies
• Design and build a Kubernetes based platform that automates the lifecycle management of Axon's core infrastructure
• Collaborate with engineering teams across Axon to guide application design patterns as they relate to platform service consumption
• Build and operate a self service platform that vends datastore solutions with well defined, best practice utilization patterns
• Partner directly with application teams to diagnose and resolve datastore performance bottlenecks and optimization opportunities

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering; Master's degree a plus
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience; background in platform automation tooling or developer experience tooling strongly preferred
• Proven ability to design and operate complex distributed systems at scale
• Experience with agentic AI tooling or building LLM-powered developer tools
• Deep experience with microservice architectures and patterns; experience migrating monoliths to microservices is a plus
• Strong command of cloud hosted services and architectures across Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Hands on experience with observability platforms such as Grafana, Datadog, or New Relic
• Familiarity with a range of relational and NoSQL datastores, with the ability to go deep on at least one (e.g., MySQL, Cassandra, PostgreSQL)
• Experience designing and operating message queue systems such as Kafka
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi

Qualifications

• Discretionary paid time off
• Paid parental leave for all parents
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Fitness programs
• Emotional and mental wellness support
• Learning and development programs
• Snacks in our offices (yes, really)

Benefits

• Competitive salary and 401(k) with employer match

Pay

Base Pay Range: $134,250 - $214,800 USD

Schedule

This role is based out of our Atlanta, Seattle, or 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.