About this role
About the Role Join Axon's Platform team as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, helping design platform architecture, drive automation, and scale systems that ingest and store tens of petabytes of video and digital evidence. You’ll lead Kubernetes-based lifecycle management, GitOps-driven configuration, and infrastructure-as-code practices across a polyglot datastore environment.
This role is based out of our Atlanta, Seattle, or Boston office with a hybrid schedule and on-site collaboration requirements.
What You'll Do
- 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
What We're Looking For
- 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
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range: $134,000 - $215,000 per year
- Competitive salary and 401(k) with employer match
- 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
- Benefits may vary based on employment type and work location