Senior Cloud Platform Engineer: Kubernetes & Service Mesh

Axon; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 149,000 - 238,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

401k with employer match

Discretionary paid time off

Paid parental leave

Medical, Dental, Vision plans

Fitness programs

Mental wellness support

Learning & Development programs

Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

Snacks in office

Job summary

Axon seeks a senior platform engineer for the APX CloudNet team. You will focus on real-time, cloud-native services, implementing reliable networking, service mesh patterns, and automated TLS/CDN workflows.

You’ll collaborate across teams worldwide to ship scalable, observable platforms. Hybrid work from Seattle, with onsite Tue–Fri and remote Mon, supporting innovation and reliability.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years in globally distributed, 24/7 production systems.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience operating Kubernetes at meaningful scale (ingress, mesh, or similar).
• Infrastructure-as-code and automated delivery on public cloud (Azure; others OK).
• Production software in Python, Go, or Java (incl. Scala) for infra/tools.
• Ownership of service mesh, ingress, TLS automation, DNS/public-edge in cloud.

Responsibilities

• Own platform networking for Axon's cloud systems: mesh/ingress, TLS automation, DNS, edge routing.
• Scale features and production hardening; improve rollout of changes.
• Ship infrastructure-as-code and software-backed controls; address vulnerabilities.
• Provide design guidance to engineers; answer questions and pair program on critical paths.

Skills

Six+ years experience

Kubernetes

Service mesh

TLS/certificate automation

DNS/public-edge patterns

GitOps

Problem solving

Empathy for engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

Envoy

Terraform

Azure

GitOps tooling

Job description

Axon seeks a senior platform engineer for the APX CloudNet team. You will focus on real-time, cloud-native services, implementing reliable networking, service mesh patterns, and automated TLS/CDN workflows.

You’ll collaborate across teams worldwide to ship scalable, observable platforms. Hybrid work from Seattle, with onsite Tue–Fri and remote Mon, supporting innovation and reliability.