Senior Platform Engineer - AI-Driven Cloud & Scale (Hybrid)

Axon; United States; Hybrid; USD 141,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

401k with employer match

Discretionary time off

Paid parental leave

Fitness Programs

Emotional & Development Programs

Snacks in office

Job summary

Axon seeks a Senior Platform Software Engineer to join Prepared's platform engineering team in a hybrid role based in Manhattan. You will define infrastructure and developer platform, collaborate with the broader software group, and contribute to core applications with autonomy and ownership.

The work blends strategic vision with hands-on execution. You’ll design and maintain scalable infrastructure, implement best practices for deployment and monitoring, and mentor engineers while contributing

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering industry experience.
• Proven capacity to operate in a platform engineering or similar role.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems.
• Desire to work in a fast-paced and dynamic startup environment.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or Crossplane.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and tools like Github Actions, Drone CI, or Gitlab CI.
• Proficiency in or eagerness to learn our backend stack (RoR, Go).
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools and standards such as OpenTelemetry, Datadog, and the LGTM stack.
• Strong communication skills and a love for both producing and consuming documentation.
• Our team is leaning into agentic software development workflows, and we’re looking for engineers who have experimented with—or are enthusiastic about embracing—AI-augmented ways of building software.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure to support Prepared’s platform.
• Develop and implement best practices for software development, deployment, and monitoring.
• Automate repetitive tasks to enhance the efficiency and reliability of the engineering team.
• Help the team implement and define SLOs and report on customer SLAs.
• Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to the long‑term strategy of the platform.
• Mentor junior engineers and help shape the engineering culture within the team.
• Travel occasionally to support customer deployments and onsite implementations

Skills

Platform engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

IaC tools

Docker & Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

RoR/Go backend

Monitoring & logging

Documentation

AI-augmented software

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Crossplane

Docker

Kubernetes

Github Actions

Drone CI

Gitlab CI

RoR

Go

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Job description

Axon seeks a Senior Platform Software Engineer to join Prepared's platform engineering team in a hybrid role based in Manhattan. You will define infrastructure and developer platform, collaborate with the broader software group, and contribute to core applications with autonomy and ownership.

The work blends strategic vision with hands-on execution. You’ll design and maintain scalable infrastructure, implement best practices for deployment and monitoring, and mentor engineers while contributing