Senior Observability Platform SRE

Koitecc Solutions; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 134,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & 401k

Discretionary time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Axon is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join the Observability team in Seattle. You will own distributed tracing, logging, and metrics infrastructure across multi-environment deployments, collaborating with engineering teams to raise reliability and developer experience.

The role emphasizes hands-on work with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loki, Cortex, and Terraform, plus GitOps workflows and on-call readiness. A strong Linux background is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent highly technical field.
• 7+ years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering.
• Experience with agentic AI tooling or building LLM-powered developer tools.
• Strong Linux systems fundamentals and comfort working in Kubernetes-based environments.
• Hands-on experience with one or more components of the LGTM stack: Loki, Grafana, Tempo/Jaeger, or Mimir/Cortex.
• Experience with infrastructure as code - Terraform strongly preferred, CDK is a plus.
• Experience with any of: Golang, Python, or Java.
• United States citizen - able to gain CJIS clearance for full US production access.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Axon's distributed tracing infrastructure, including Jaeger and OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation, driving adoption across Axon's service-oriented architecture
• Build and operate Axon's log aggregation platform (Grafana Loki + Alloy), expanding use cases beyond Kubernetes event logs and reducing organizational dependency on expensive third-party log tooling (including Splunk)
• Maintain and improve Axon's metrics infrastructure (Cortex, Prometheus, Grafana) - the foundation for alerting, dashboards, and SLO tracking across all of Axon's environments
• Write internal tooling and automation that makes observability self-service: toolkit commands, agentic on-call helpers, runbook generation, and dashboard scaffolding
• Manage observability infrastructure as code via Terraform, CDK, ArgoCD, and Helm - including capacity management, cybersecurity requirements and compliance, and on-call rotation participation
• Work directly with engineering teams across Axon to define instrumentation standards, drive tracing adoption, and help teams build meaningful SLOs for their services

Skills

Linux fundamentals

Kubernetes

Observability concepts

Infrastructure as code

Golang

Python

Java

CJIS clearance

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

CDK

ArgoCD

Helm

Grafana

Loki

Tempo/Jaeger

Cortex/Mimir

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Axon is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join the Observability team in Seattle. You will own distributed tracing, logging, and metrics infrastructure across multi-environment deployments, collaborating with engineering teams to raise reliability and developer experience.

The role emphasizes hands-on work with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loki, Cortex, and Terraform, plus GitOps workflows and on-call readiness. A strong Linux background is essential.