Site Reliability Engineer II
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions.
We need to parse the posting.
Key parts:
- Intro: "Join Axon and be a Force for Good." etc. That's about the role? Could be "About the role" or "About Axon". We'll treat as "About the role" maybe.
- "Your Impact" paragraph: could be part of About the role.
- "Axon's Platform team is the engine..." description.
- "Location - This role is based out of our 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."
Thus we have location and schedule details: schedule: hybrid, onsite Tue-Fri, remote Mon.
- "What You'll Do": list of responsibilities bullet points.
- "What You Bring": qualifications/requirements bullet points.
- "Benefits that Benefit You": list of benefits.
- "Base Pay Range: $115,500 USD - $184,800 USD": pay.
- Also note: "Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work." That's a note but we can keep as part of benefits.
- Also "Axon is a total compensation company..." etc. Might be considered part of pay/benefits but we can keep as part of Pay maybe.
- Also "Don’t meet every single requirement? That's ok." That's encouragement, maybe part of "About the role" or "Encouragement". Could be omitted? It's substantive but not a requirement. We could include in "About the role" as a note.
- "Important Notes" etc: that's boilerplate legal; we should remove.
- "Some roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment." Might be relevant but it's a note; could be part of Requirements? It's a condition. Might keep as a note under Requirements.
- "We collect personal information..." etc: privacy, legal; remove.
- "Axon’s mission is to Protect Life..." etc: EEO boilerplate; remove.
- "Phishing alert:" etc: scam-warning; remove.
Thus we need sections: About the role (maybe combine intro and impact), Responsibilities (What You'll Do), Requirements (What You Bring), Benefits, Pay, Schedule (maybe location+schedule). Also maybe Qualifications? But we have Requirements covering qualifications. Could also have Skills but we can combine.
We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual content.
We need to use for section headings. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We must not include markdown fences.
We need to preserve all substantive info; not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the exact wording? Probably we can keep the substance but not necessarily verbatim; but better to keep close.
We need to avoid duplication.
Let's draft.
Section About the role: include intro paragraphs: "Join Axon and be a Force for Good." etc up to "Your Impact" paragraph and maybe the "Platform team is the engine..." paragraph. Also include the encouragement note about not meeting every requirement? Could be part of About the role.
We'll produce:
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. 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: Every body camera upload. Every piece of digital evidence. Every chain of custody log that holds up in court. That's us.
Axon's Platform team is the engine behind what hundreds of thousands of officers rely on every day. We're one of the world's largest blob storage customers, ingesting tens of petabytes of video and that number keeps climbing. Audio, photographs, sensor streams: if it's evidence, we move it, store it, and protect it. We're not in maintenance mode. We're in build mode. We're modernizing from the ground up with Kubernetes native lifecycle management, GitOps driven configuration, and infrastructure as code that actually reflects reality. We run a polyglot datastore environment: relational databases, wide column stores, document stores, caches, and queues, and we're building the self service platform that helps every team at Axon pick the right tool and use it well. Kafka moves the data. Terraform provisions the world. Grafana tells us when something's wrong before our users do.
Don’t meet every single requirement? That's ok. At Axon, we Aim Far. We think big with a long-term view because we want to reinvent the world to be a safer, better place. We are also committed to building diverse teams that reflect the communities we serve. Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every box in the job description. If you’re excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification listed here, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
That seems good.
Next Responsibilities: "What You'll Do" bullet list.
We'll produce:
Responsibilities
- Contribute to agentic coding workflows, infrastructure as code practices, and technical code reviews across the platform
- Support architectural decisions and standardization efforts for Axon's platform technologies, under the guidance of senior team members
- Help design and build a Kubernetes based platform that automates the lifecycle management of Axon's core infrastructure
- Collaborate with engineering teams across Axon to support application design patterns as they relate to platform service consumption
- Help build and operate a self service platform that vends datastore solutions with well defined, best practice utilization patterns
- Partner with application teams to diagnose and resolve datastore performance bottlenecks and optimization opportunities
Next Requirements / Qualifications: "What You Bring" bullet list.
We'll produce:
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering; Master's degree a plus
- United States Citizen — able to gain CJIS clearance for full US production access
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience; background in platform automation tooling or developer experience tooling a plus
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems, with a desire to grow into larger-scale architectural work
- Familiarity with agentic AI tooling or LLM-powered developer tools
- Solid experience with microservice architectures and patterns
- Working knowledge 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 relational and/or NoSQL datastores (e.g., MySQL, Cassandra, PostgreSQL)
- Experience with message queue systems such as Kafka
- Working knowledge of infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi
We could also add note about legal eligibility to work in firearms environment; but it's under "Some roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment." That's a conditional note; we could add as a list item under Requirements maybe. But it's not a requirement for this role necessarily; it's a note. Might be considered boilerplate? It's specific to some roles. Safer to omit? The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. This note is substantive but conditional. Could include as a paragraph under Requirements: Some roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.
But it's not a requirement for this role; still it's info. I'd include as a paragraph.
Next Benefits: "Benefits that Benefit You" list.
We'll produce:
Benefits
- Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
- Discretionary paid time off
- Paid parental leave for all
- Medical, Dental, Vision plans
- Fitness Programs
- Emotional & Mental Wellness support
- Learning & Development programs
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
- Snacks in our offices
Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work. Axon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: level, function, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, geographic market, and often a combination of all these factors. Our benefits offer an array of options to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. To see more details on our benefits offerings please visit https://www.axon.com/careers.
But note: The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." We have Benefits section with list and a paragraph; that's fine.
Pay: Base Pay Range.
We'll produce:
Pay
Base Pay Range: $115,500 USD - $184,800 USD
Schedule: location and schedule.
We'll produce:
Schedule
Location - This role is based out of our 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.
We could also combine location and schedule into one section; but we have Schedule heading.
We must not include sections like Qualifications separate if we already have Requirements. That's fine.
We must not include duplicated lines; we have not.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO etc; we removed.
Check for any leftover boilerplate: The "Important Notes" etc removed. The "Phishing alert" removed. The "We collect personal information" removed. The "Axon’s mission is to Protect Life..." removed.
We kept the encouragement note under About the role.
Now ensure we didn't miss any substantive info: The "Your Impact" paragraph we included. The "Axon's Platform team is the engine..." we included. The "Location - This role is based out of our Seattle, or Boston office..." we included. The "What You'll Do" list we included. The "What You Bring" list we included. The "Benefits that Benefit You" list we included. The note about benefits varying we included. The "Base Pay Range" we included. The "Axon is a total compensation company..." we included under Benefits paragraph. The "To see more details..." we included.
We also included the note about "Some roles
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose. We must not include markdown fences. We need to preserve all substantive info; not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the exact wording? Probably we can keep the substance but not necessarily verbatim; but better to keep close. We need to avoid duplication. Let's draft. Section About the role: include intro paragraphs: "Join Axon and be a Force for Good." etc up to "Your Impact" paragraph and maybe the "Platform team is the engine..." paragraph. Also include the encouragement note about not meeting every requirement? Could be part of About the role. We'll produce:
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. 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: Every body camera upload. Every piece of digital evidence. Every chain of custody log that holds up in court. That's us.
Axon's Platform team is the engine behind what hundreds of thousands of officers rely on every day. We're one of the world's largest blob storage customers, ingesting tens of petabytes of video and that number keeps climbing. Audio, photographs, sensor streams: if it's evidence, we move it, store it, and protect it. We're not in maintenance mode. We're in build mode. We're modernizing from the ground up with Kubernetes native lifecycle management, GitOps driven configuration, and infrastructure as code that actually reflects reality. We run a polyglot datastore environment: relational databases, wide column stores, document stores, caches, and queues, and we're building the self service platform that helps every team at Axon pick the right tool and use it well. Kafka moves the data. Terraform provisions the world. Grafana tells us when something's wrong before our users do.
Don’t meet every single requirement? That's ok. At Axon, we Aim Far. We think big with a long-term view because we want to reinvent the world to be a safer, better place. We are also committed to building diverse teams that reflect the communities we serve. Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every box in the job description. If you’re excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification listed here, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
That seems good. Next Responsibilities: "What You'll Do" bullet list. We'll produce:Responsibilities
- Contribute to agentic coding workflows, infrastructure as code practices, and technical code reviews across the platform
- Support architectural decisions and standardization efforts for Axon's platform technologies, under the guidance of senior team members
- Help design and build a Kubernetes based platform that automates the lifecycle management of Axon's core infrastructure
- Collaborate with engineering teams across Axon to support application design patterns as they relate to platform service consumption
- Help build and operate a self service platform that vends datastore solutions with well defined, best practice utilization patterns
- Partner 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
- United States Citizen — able to gain CJIS clearance for full US production access
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience; background in platform automation tooling or developer experience tooling a plus
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems, with a desire to grow into larger-scale architectural work
- Familiarity with agentic AI tooling or LLM-powered developer tools
- Solid experience with microservice architectures and patterns
- Working knowledge 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 relational and/or NoSQL datastores (e.g., MySQL, Cassandra, PostgreSQL)
- Experience with message queue systems such as Kafka
- Working knowledge of infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi
Some roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.
But it's not a requirement for this role; still it's info. I'd include as a paragraph. Next Benefits: "Benefits that Benefit You" list. We'll produce:Benefits
- Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
- Discretionary paid time off
- Paid parental leave for all
- Medical, Dental, Vision plans
- Fitness Programs
- Emotional & Mental Wellness support
- Learning & Development programs
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
- Snacks in our offices
Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work. Axon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: level, function, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, geographic market, and often a combination of all these factors. Our benefits offer an array of options to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. To see more details on our benefits offerings please visit https://www.axon.com/careers.
But note: The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." We have Benefits section with list and a paragraph; that's fine. Pay: Base Pay Range. We'll produce:Pay
Base Pay Range: $115,500 USD - $184,800 USD
Schedule: location and schedule. We'll produce:Schedule
Location - This role is based out of our 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.
We could also combine location and schedule into one section; but we have Schedule heading. We must not include sections like Qualifications separate if we already have Requirements. That's fine. We must not include duplicated lines; we have not. We must not include boilerplate like EEO etc; we removed. Check for any leftover boilerplate: The "Important Notes" etc removed. The "Phishing alert" removed. The "We collect personal information" removed. The "Axon’s mission is to Protect Life..." removed. We kept the encouragement note under About the role. Now ensure we didn't miss any substantive info: The "Your Impact" paragraph we included. The "Axon's Platform team is the engine..." we included. The "Location - This role is based out of our Seattle, or Boston office..." we included. The "What You'll Do" list we included. The "What You Bring" list we included. The "Benefits that Benefit You" list we included. The note about benefits varying we included. The "Base Pay Range" we included. The "Axon is a total compensation company..." we included under Benefits paragraph. The "To see more details..." we included. We also included the note about "Some roles