Senior SRE: Cloud-Native Platform Engineer

Axon Enterprise; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 134,250 - 214,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and 401k with-emloy

Discretionary time off

Paid parental leave for all

Fitness Programs

Emotional & Development Programs

Snacks in our offices

Job summary

Axon Enterprise seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to build scalable Kubernetes-based platforms and cloud-native tooling. You’ll craft reliable infrastructure, automate provisioning with CI/CD, and drive best practices across distributed systems in a fast-growing environment.

You’ll work across Azure/AWS, design tooling for SaaS/PaaS operations, and mentor engineers on reliability, observability, and secure operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of applicable experience in Platform engineering, and container orchestration.
• Experience building platforms on either 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.
• Building, operating, and managing infrastructure and systems that are highly revenue, security, and/or health and life-safety critical.
• 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.
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code tools for provisioning flexible and testible modules such as Terraform, Pulumi, or similar.
• Experience designing tooling to simplify the operational management of SaaS/PaaS systems.
• Empathy to support the needs of software engineers.

Responsibilities

• As an SRE, you’ll play a critical role in building the infrastructure and tools that power reliable, scalable, and secure engineering operations across the company.
• Build robust, easy-to-use kubernetes platforms and tools that enable engineering teams to provision and operate services rapidly, consistently, and securely.
• Exemplify cloud-native site reliability best practices.
• Write code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise.
• Employ strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to debug problems in cloud-native distributed systems.
• Employ technical project management skills, with the ability to properly scope, plan, and define work to meet deadlines.
• Influence and educate the engineering organization to adopt new and improved architectural patterns.
• Provide robust documentation for use by engineers to promote self-service.
• Continually seek improvement within the entire platform org for improved reliability, operability, and cost efficiency
• Take calculated risks, champion new ideas, and cultivate your craft.

Skills

Platform engineering

Container orchestration

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes platforms

Python

Go

C#

Java

CI/CD

Observability

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Pulumi

SaaS tooling

Empathy for engineers

Tools

AKS

EKS

Terraform

Pulumi

Job description

Axon Enterprise seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to build scalable Kubernetes-based platforms and cloud-native tooling. You’ll craft reliable infrastructure, automate provisioning with CI/CD, and drive best practices across distributed systems in a fast-growing environment.

You’ll work across Azure/AWS, design tooling for SaaS/PaaS operations, and mentor engineers on reliability, observability, and secure operations.