Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Axon 911

Axon; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 141,000 - 216,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and 401k with employer match

Discretionary time off

Paid parental leave

Medical, Dental, Vision plans

Fitness Programs

Emotional & Development Programs

Snacks in offices

Job summary

Axon in New York is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability and operational excellence of the Unified Call platform for 911 calls. This hybrid role entails collaborating closely with engineering teams to strengthen system resiliency and uptime.

The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of relevant experience, particularly with observability platforms and Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure, and will be expected to drive significant operational improvements.

Axon offers competitive benefits, including a salary range of $141,000—$216,600, along with paid parental leave and discretionary time off.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar role.
• Strong experience with observability platforms is essential.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and improve observability and incident response for Unified Call platform.
• Build and mature deployment processes to enhance reliability.
• Analyze system architecture and implement improvements.

Skills

Experience as a Site Reliability Engineer

Strong experience with observability platforms (Datadog preferred)

Experience supporting Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure

Experience designing monitoring and operational automation

Message queues and event-driven architectures experience

Working knowledge of cloud networking fundamentals

Job description

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.

About Axon 911

Axon 911 brings together Prepared and Carbyne under Axon. Together, we are creating the only platform that combines modern 911 infrastructure with an AI intelligence layer—helping public safety agencies move faster, make better decisions, and deliver better outcomes in the moments that matter most.

911 is the backbone of public safety, yet the professionals behind it have long been held back by outdated technology. Axon 911 is here to change that. Joining this team means more than taking a job—it means helping shape the future of emergency response and building a safer, more connected world.

Position Overview

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you'll own the reliability, observability, and operational excellence of our Unified Call (UC) platform—the mission-critical system responsible for handling 911 calls.

This is a foundational role on a growing Platform Engineering team. You’ll help evolve the systems, tooling, and operational practices that support our applications today while building the foundation for the next phase of our growth. You'll have significant ownership, high visibility, and the opportunity to shape how reliability engineering is practiced across one of the company's most important products.

This is a hybrid role, with an expectation of four days per week in our Manhattan office.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and improve observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response across the Unified Call platform.
• Build and mature deployment processes that improve reliability and reduce operational risk.
• Partner closely with Platform Engineering and the Unified Call engineering team to improve system resiliency and uptime.
• Analyze system architecture, identify operational risks, and implement improvements before they become customer-impacting incidents.
• Develop dashboards, automation, and operational tooling that enable engineers to confidently operate production systems.
• Help establish Site Reliability Engineering best practices as the organization continues to scale.

What Make You a Great Fit

We're looking for someone who has:

• 5+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Platform Engineer, or similar role.
• Strong experience with observability platforms (Datadog strongly preferred).
• Experience supporting Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.
• Experience designing monitoring, alerting, deployments, and operational automation for production systems.
• Experience working with message queues, event-driven architectures, or messaging platforms such as RabbitMQ or Kafka.
• Working knowledge of cloud networking fundamentals.

We believe this role requires someone who is comfortable:

• Building systems from the ground up rather than maintaining mature environments.
• Taking ownership of ambiguous technical problems with minimal direction.
• Leading operational improvements rather than simply executing assigned tickets.
• Collaborating across engineering teams while driving initiatives independently.

Bonus (optional)

• Telephony or communications infrastructure experience (strong bonus)
• Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical distributed systems

Benefits that Benefit You

• Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
• Discretionary time off
• Paid parental leave for all
• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Fitness Programs
• Emotional & Development Programs
• And yes, we have snacks in our offices

Axon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: level, function, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, geographic market, and often a combination of all these factors. Our benefits offer an array of options to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. To see more details on our benefits offerings please visit https://www.axon.com/careers.

Base Pay Range: $141,000—$216,600 USD

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.

Important Notes

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.

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