Senior SRE: Cloud-Native Kubernetes Platform

Axon; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 134,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with employer match

Discretionary time off

Paid parental leave

Medical benefits

Fitness programs

Emotional development programs

Office snacks

Job summary

Axon seeks an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the APX SRE organization. Based in Seattle with a hybrid schedule, you’ll build scalable Kubernetes platforms, ensure reliability, and improve developer experience across a cloud-native global platform.

You’ll work with Azure/AWS, Python/Go/C#, and IaC tools, shaping architecture and tooling while collaborating with engineers to promote best practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of platform engineering and container orchestration experience.
• United States citizen — able to gain CJIS clearance for full US production access.
• Experience building platforms on Azure or AWS (preferably both).
• Building, operating, and innovating clustering solutions for Kubernetes platforms like AKS, EKS, or similar in production at scale.
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, Go, C#, Java, and others.
• Experience building and managing infrastructure that is high-revenue, security, or life-safety critical.
• Experience using CI/CD to automate provisioning, builds, tests, releases.
• Experience using observability tools (APM, logging, metrics) for debugging.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Pulumi).
• Experience designing tooling to simplify SaaS/PaaS operations.
• Empathy to support software engineers.

Responsibilities

• Build robust, easy-to-use Kubernetes platforms and tools for provisioning and operating services.
• Exemplify cloud-native site reliability best practices.
• Write performant, maintainable code.
• Debug issues in cloud-native distributed systems with strong problem-solving.
• Plan and scope work to meet deadlines with project management skills.
• Influence engineers to adopt improved architectural patterns.
• Provide documentation for self-service by engineers.
• Seek continual improvement for reliability, operability and cost efficiency.
• Take calculated risks and champion new ideas.

Skills

Platform engineering

Container orchestration

Azure

AWS

Kubernetes platforms

Python

Go

C#

Java

CI/CD

Observability tools

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Pulumi

SaaS/PaaS tooling

Empathy

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

AKS

EKS

CI/CD platforms

Azure

AWS

Job description

Axon seeks an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the APX SRE organization. Based in Seattle with a hybrid schedule, you’ll build scalable Kubernetes platforms, ensure reliability, and improve developer experience across a cloud-native global platform.

You’ll work with Azure/AWS, Python/Go/C#, and IaC tools, shaping architecture and tooling while collaborating with engineers to promote best practices.