Senior Software Engineer, Dedrone Infrastructure

Axon; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Dedrone Infrastructure Services team in London. You will be responsible for accelerating product development by building and maintaining the core infrastructure essential for engineering teams. The ideal candidate will have over 3 years of relevant experience and proficiency with AWS services, CI/CD pipelines, and Docker. Competitive salary and benefits are offered, along with opportunities for career growth.

Benefits

Competitive base salary and RSUs

Comprehensive pension plan with matching contribution

Private health insurance & cash plans

30 days paid holiday + UK public holidays

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

Career growth support and wellness resources

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, backend engineering, or platform/DevOps roles.
• Proficiency with cloud and automation tools.
• Strong engineering fundamentals including backend development.

Responsibilities

• Own, design, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for Dedrone’s ecosystem.
• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Architect and secure Docker images and workflows.

Skills

AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch)

CI/CD pipeline development

Terraform or AWS CDK

Docker and orchestration tools (ECS, EKS, Kubernetes)

Linux, Bash, and scripting skills

Observability practices

Backend development (e.g., Java, Go, Python)

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Dedrone Infrastructure

London, England, United Kingdom

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 Senior Platform Engineer on Dedrone’s Infrastructure Services team, you will accelerate product development by building and maintaining the core infrastructure, tooling, and automation systems that engineering teams rely on. You will shape the CI/CD ecosystem, strengthen observability platforms, and deliver scalable, secure cloud infrastructure. This role enables deep technical ownership and provides significant opportunities to influence engineering standards, developer experience, and future platform architecture across the product teams.

What You’ll Do

Location: Onsite at our London, UK office 4 days a week
Reports to: Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Services
Direct Reports: none

• Own, design, and optimize CI/CD pipelines supporting Dedrone’s distributed, product ecosystem—reducing build times, deployment friction, and manual overhead.
• Build, automate, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or AWS CDK), ensuring scalable, secure, and reusable cloud environments.
• Maintain and evolve backend services owned by the team
• Architect, optimize, and secure Docker images and container workflows; support orchestration environments (such as ECS, EKS, Kubernetes).
• Strengthen and expand Dedrone’s observability stack— metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting—leveraging tools such as Grafana, Cloudwatch
• Establish and promote engineering best practices across development standards, CI/CD patterns, infrastructure templates, and reusable tooling.
• Partner closely with product engineering teams to understand bottlenecks, reduce toil, and increase overall developer velocity.
• Contribute to security-focused improvements across the platform CI/CD, IAM, secrets management, and cloud resource hardening.
• Collaborate with Axon platform, infrastructure, and security teams to align workflows and adopt shared best practices.
• Deliver measurable improvements to system reliability, automation, and infrastructure scalability.

What You Bring

• 3+ years of relevant experience in cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, backend engineering, or platform/DevOps roles, with an emphasis on practical, hands‑on expertise over formal education.
• Proficiency with modern cloud and automation tooling, including CI/CD pipeline development, AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or AWS CDK), and containerization using Docker and orchestration tools such as ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes.
• Strong engineering fundamentals, including backend development experience (e.g., Java, Go, Python), as well as Linux, Bash, and scripting skills used for automation, debugging, and improving developer workflows.
• Experience implementing observability practices—including metrics, logging, and tracing—and using insights to diagnose issues, improve reliability, and elevate developer experience across systems.
• A collaborative approach grounded in Axon’s values—showing ownership, candor, customer success, the courage to boldly go, and the ambition to aim far and win right—supported by a track record of reducing toil, resolving bottlenecks, and strengthening the overall engineering ecosystem.

Work Location

This role is based out of our London, UK office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in‑person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesday through Friday, with flexibility to work remotely on Mondays unless there is an approved workplace accommodation. We believe that connection fuels innovation, and our in‑office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success.

Benefits that Benefit You

• Competitive base salary and RSUs
• Comprehensive pension plan with matching contribution
• Private health insurance & cash plans
• 30 days paid holiday + UK public holidays
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
• Life assurance & income protection
• Career growth support and wellness resources

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

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.

The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all duties, responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job. The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.

Some roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.

Axon’s mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well‑being and safety of its employees as well as Axon’s impact on the environment. All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental, health, and safety regulations, policies, and procedures. Axon employees are empowered to report safety concerns as they arise and activities potentially impacting the environment.

We are an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice, advances equity, values diversity and fosters inclusion. We’re committed to hiring the best talent — regardless of race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances — and empowering all of our employees so they can do their best work. If you have a disability or special need that requires assistance or accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email [e-mail]. Please note that this email address is for accommodation purposes only. Axon will not respond to inquiries for other purposes.