Hybrid Platform SRE - Kubernetes & IaC Architect

Axon; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 134,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and 401(k) with(em>

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)

Job summary

Axon is building a robust, Kubernetes-native platform that ingests petabytes of evidence and powers millions of officers. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll set technical direction across data stores, microservices, and cloud architectures while partnering with Axon teams to design scalable solutions.

This hybrid role requires hands-on expertise with infrastructure as code, observability, and building self-service datastore platforms.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.

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.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Distributed systems design

Agentic AI tooling experience

Microservices expertise

Platform automation tooling

Developer experience tooling

High-scale systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Master's degree

Tools

Grafana

Datadog

New Relic

Kafka

Terraform

Pulumi

Kubernetes

Job description

Axon is building a robust, Kubernetes-native platform that ingests petabytes of evidence and powers millions of officers. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll set technical direction across data stores, microservices, and cloud architectures while partnering with Axon teams to design scalable solutions.

This hybrid role requires hands-on expertise with infrastructure as code, observability, and building self-service datastore platforms.