Senior Site Reliability Engineer I

Axon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and 401(k) with employer match

Discretionary time off

Paid parental leave

Fitness programs

Emotional & Development Programs

Snacks in our offices

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design and enhance cloud infrastructure. This position focuses on multi-cloud environments, including AWS and Azure, and requires proficiency in languages like Go and Python. Responsibilities include leading design reviews, mentoring engineers, and ensuring operational efficiency. Benefits include a competitive salary, 401(k) with employer match, and discretionary time off. The salary range is $150,000 to $180,000 USD.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience handling classified federal data and U.S. citizenship required.
• Proficiency in managed languages like Go and Python for building services.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement services to improve cloud infrastructure reliability.
• Write production-quality code in Go or Python.
• Participate in on-call rotations for incident response.

Skills

Software engineering

Cloud infrastructure design

Site reliability engineering

Go

Python

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Your Impact

As a Senior SRE on the APX SRE CloudOps team, you will design and build the cloud infrastructure and automation platforms that Axon’s product engineering teams depend on. You will architect solutions for multi‑cloud environments (Azure, AWS), FedRAMP compliance boundaries, and large‑scale Kubernetes platforms serving production workloads across multiple regions. You will spend a significant portion of your time writing code: building services, APIs, and internal tooling using Go and Python. You will also participate in on‑call rotations and incident response, using operational experience to drive reliability improvements and inform platform investment. This role combines software engineering depth with cloud architecture at scale and production ownership.

Location: This role is based out of our Atlanta, Seattle, or Boston office and follows a hybrid schedule with onsite Tuesdays‑Friday and remote Mondays.

What You'll Do

• Design and implement services, APIs, and automation tooling that improve cloud infrastructure reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Write production‑quality code in Go, Python, or similar; lead design reviews and set code quality standards within the team.
• Build robust, easy‑to‑use foundational platforms and tools that enable engineering teams to provision services rapidly, consistently, securely, and cost‑effectively.
• Architect cloud infrastructure across Azure and AWS, including Kubernetes platforms, networking, and identity boundaries.
• Participate in on‑call rotations and incident response; use operational experience to identify systemic reliability risks and drive platform improvements.
• Foresee and mitigate risks in infrastructure design: single points of failure, scaling bottlenecks, security gaps, and compliance drift.
• Influence and educate the engineering organization to adopt new and improved architectural patterns.
• Leverage AI tooling and agentic workflows to accelerate engineering delivery and operational automation.
• Provide robust documentation for use by engineers to promote self‑service.
• Mentor junior and mid‑level engineers through code review, design guidance, and pairing.

What You Bring

• This position involves handling classified federal data; under federal regulations, it is open to U.S. citizens only.
• 8+ years of applicable experience in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, or site reliability engineering.
• Experience designing and operating cloud platforms at scale across Azure, AWS, or similar.
• Proficiency in one or more managed languages (Go, Python, Java, C#) in the context of building services, not just scripting.
• Experience architecting and operating Kubernetes platforms (AKS, EKS, or similar) at production scale.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, or similar) for managing multi‑environment, multi‑region infrastructure.
• Experience utilizing CI/CD platforms to automate provisioning infrastructure, software builds, tests, and releases.
• Experience using observability tools such as APM, logging, and metrics to assist with debugging issues.
• Track record of leading design reviews, writing technical proposals, and setting engineering standards within a team.
• Builder‑operator mindset with proven production ownership (uptime, SLOs, on‑call, incident leadership).
• Experience mentoring engineers and conducting technical interviews.
• Experience using AI‑assisted development tools to accelerate engineering workflows is a strong plus.

Benefits that Benefit You

• Competitive salary and 401(k) with employer match
• Discretionary time off
• Paid parental leave for all
• Fitness programs
• Emotional & Development Programs
• Snacks in our offices

Base Pay Range: $150,000 – $180,000 USD

E‑EO Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice, advances equity, values diversity, and fosters inclusion. We commit to hiring the best talent regardless of protected characteristics and provide accommodations for applicants with disabilities.