Senior Site Reliability Engineer I

Axon; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Vancouver seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to enhance their cloud-native services' reliability and performance. You'll build tools for rapid service provisioning and exemplify best practices in site reliability. Ideal candidates have strong software engineering skills with cloud platform management experience. Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits are offered.

Benefits

Competitive salary and 401k with employer match

Discretionary paid time off

Paid parental leave

Fitness Programs

Emotional & Mental Wellness support

Qualifications

• 6+ years of applicable software engineering or SRE experience.
• 3+ years experience managing cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS.
• Experience operating in Kubernetes platforms like AKS, EKS.

Responsibilities

• Build foundational platforms and tools for engineering teams.
• Exemplify cloud-native site reliability best practices.
• Write performant and maintainable code.

Skills

Software engineering

Cloud platform management

Kubernetes

API development

Problem-solving skills

Job description

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 SRE organization, you are passionate about delivering solutions to the real-time problems our mission-critical cloud native services encounter. You are also obsessed about achieving the high quality and reliability 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.

What You'll Do

• Build robust, easy-to-use foundational platforms and tools that enable engineering teams to provision services rapidly, consistently, and securely.
• Exemplify cloud-native site reliability best practices.
• 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.
• Contribute to platform features and tooling by designing clear, well-tested APIs in Go or Python.
• Author design docs, test plans, and usage guides to promote self-service.
• Take calculated risks, champion new ideas, and cultivate your craft.

What You Bring

• 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-testing experience.
• Experience utilizing CI/CD platforms to automate provisioning infrastructure, software builds, releases, and integration tests on your code.
• Experience using observability tools such as APM, logging, and metrics to assist with debugging issues.
• Experience designing tooling to simplify the operational management of SaaS/PaaS systems.
• Familiarity with building flexible and testable Infrastructure as Code modules.
• Empathy to support the needs of software engineers.

Benefits that Benefit You

• Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
• Discretionary paid time off
• Paid parental leave for all
• Fitness Programs
• Emotional & Mental Wellness support
• And yes, we have snacks in our offices

Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work.

Axon is an equal opportunity employer.