Site Reliability Engineer II — CloudOps & Automation

Axon Enterprise; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 115,500 - 164,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and 401k with emloy

Discretionary paid time off

Paid parental leave for all

Wellness programs

Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

Snacks in offices

Job summary

Axon is seeking an engineer on the APX SRE CloudOps team to build the Zero Touch Platform with Golang and Temporal, delivering automated workflows and services that replace manual toil.

You will participate in on-call rotations, own production uptime, and help define reliable patterns across CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure as code in a hybrid Boston/Seattle setup. This role is based in Boston or Seattle with in-person collaboration on Tue–Fri and remote Mondays.

Qualifications

• This position involves handling of classified federal data; under federal regulations, it is open to U.S. citizens only.
• 5+ years of applicable experience.
• Experience managing cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or similar.
• Experience using managed languages such as Python, Go, C#, Java, or similar.
• Experience operating in Kubernetes platforms like AKS, EKS, or similar.
• 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 infrastructure such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar.
• Builder-operator mindset with proven production ownership (uptime, SLOs, on-call, incident leadership).
• Empathy to support the needs of software engineers.

Responsibilities

• Develop Temporal workflows and Go services on the Zero Touch Platform that automate cloud operations at scale.
• Write code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise. Participate in code review, design reviews, and CI/CD.
• Build robust, easy-to-use foundational platforms and tools that enable engineering teams to provision services rapidly, consistently, securely, and cost-effectively.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response. Use operational experience to identify and prioritize the next automation targets.
• Debug and resolve issues in cloud-native distributed systems.
• Influence and educate the engineering organization to adopt new and improved architectural patterns.
• Provide robust documentation for use by engineers to promote self-service.
• Take calculated risks, champion new ideas, and cultivate your craft.

Skills

Golang

Temporal

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Java

On-call

Production ownership

Automation

Tools

Azure

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

AKS

EKS

Job description

Axon is seeking an engineer on the APX SRE CloudOps team to build the Zero Touch Platform with Golang and Temporal, delivering automated workflows and services that replace manual toil.

You will participate in on-call rotations, own production uptime, and help define reliable patterns across CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure as code in a hybrid Boston/Seattle setup. This role is based in Boston or Seattle with in-person collaboration on Tue–Fri and remote Mondays.