Sr. Site Reliability Engineer II

Axon; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a senior site reliability engineer to enhance their cloud-native services. You will be responsible for building platforms, writing code, and educating teams within a remote work environment. Candidates must have significant experience with Kubernetes and cloud management. The role offers competitive salary, 401k, and various wellness benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary and 401k with employer match

Discretionary paid time off

Paid parental leave

Fitness Programs

Emotional & Mental Wellness support

Office snacks

Qualifications

• 10+ years of applicable experience.
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes, including cluster management.
• Experience with cloud platforms like Azure or AWS.

Responsibilities

• Build robust foundational platforms for engineering teams.
• Write performant and clear code.
• Educate the engineering organization on architectural patterns.

Skills

Kubernetes expertise

Cloud platform management

Problem-solving skills

CI/CD automation

Observability tools

Job description

Your Impact

As a contributor in the APX SRE organization, you are passionate about delivering solutions to the real-time problems our mission-critical cloud native services encounter. You are also obsessed about achieving the high quality and reliability our customers demand. You will work closely not only with the APX SRE organization, but your technical deliverables will reach the entire engineering organization to enable product teams to continuously deliver features on the vanguard of innovation.

What You’ll Do

Work Location: Remote
Reports to: Senior Manager, SRE
Direct Reports: None

• Build robust, easy-to-use foundational platforms and tools that enable engineering teams to provision 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.
• 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.

What You Bring

• This position involves handling of classified federal data; under federal regulations, it is open to US Citizens only
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes, including designing, deploying, and managing Kubernetes clusters in production environments.
• 10+ years of applicable experience
• Experience managing cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or similar.
• Experience operating in Kubernetes platforms like AKS, EKS, or similar.
• Experience using managed languages such as Python, Go, Java, 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 designing tooling to simplify the operational management of SaaS/PaaS systems.
• Familiarity with building flexible and testable Infrastructure as Code modules.
• Empathy to support the needs of software engineers.

Benefits that Benefit You

• Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
• Discretionary paid time off
• Paid parental leave for all
• Fitness Programs
• Emotional & Mental Wellness support
• And yes, we have snacks in our offices

Axon is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation during the application or recruiting process, please email [e-mail]. This email address is for accommodation purposes only.