Staff Site Reliability Engineer

American Society of Safety Professionals; United States; Remote; USD 161,000 - 258,000; Full time

Job summary

The American Society of Safety Professionals seeks a Staff Site Reliability Engineer who will significantly influence technical direction and ensure reliable cloud applications. With a focus on collaboration and mentorship, you will enhance systems to advance public safety initiatives while enjoying competitive benefits and a contribution to a mission that matters.

Benefits

Competitive salary and 401k with employer match

Discretionary time off

Paid parental leave

Medical, Dental, and Vision plans

Fitness Programs

Emotional & Development Programs

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience delivering high-availability cloud systems.
• Knowledge of Linux systems and multiple development languages.

Responsibilities

• Set technical standards for the team through architecture reviews.
• Drive best practices in operational excellence and efficiency.
• Mentor team members and lead incident management processes.

Skills

System Design

Collaboration

Technical Leadership

Mentoring

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Linux

Job description

Join Axon and be a Force for Good.

At Axon, we're on a mission to Protect Life. We're explorers, pursuing society's most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products, we work better together. We connect with candor and care, seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers, communities and each other.

Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you'll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.

Your Impact

You are a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with experience running large-scale cloud applications. You will collaborate with other staff and senior engineers to shape and drive the technical direction for the organization and products. Your strong system design skills will aid you in taking a holistic approach to ensuring our products are bulletproof and fault-tolerant, while meeting demanding interactivity and responsiveness requirements. Your customer-obsession leads you to join forces with product and engineering to deliver innovative solutions to key customer problems.

Working closely with senior site reliability engineers across teams to review their designs and steer them toward more reliable and sustainable outcomes makes you a force multiplier for your team and the teams around you. You are a great collaborator and coach, and will mentor our next set of engineering leaders. You foster a friendly, open, introspective culture that encourages everyone to speak their mind and avoid red tape, unnecessary rituals, bureaucracy and politics. You embody our company value of Join Forces, and have zero tolerance for people not willing to collaborate.

As a senior technical contributor, you have a passion for technology, and keep abreast of the latest trends, frameworks, and tools. As a technical leader, you advise our senior leadership on technical strategy for the org, while balancing our business and engineering priorities to help determine the right long-term initiatives and investments.

Come work in an exciting environment where you use your passion, experience, and analytical skills to help bring new solutions to public safety, and leave a positive impact on the world!
What You'll Do

Location: Boston - preferred
Direct Reports: None

• Set a high technical bar for the team through deep technical insights and architecture design reviews
• Work across teams in Product and Engineering to enable bring new services to life
• Perform design, code, and process reviews to improve individual systems as well as engineering-wide
• Drive and advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and efficiency
• Mentoring members of your team and across the group,
• Incident Management, coordinating internal communication and driving post incident actions

What You Bring

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering
• Experience designing and delivering high-availability, secure and scalable cloud-based systems
• Deep skill in driving technical solutions across multiple teams and leading teams to reduce manual toil
• Experience of building and operating public cloud hosted services on Azure or AWS, using Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code tools.
• Strong experience with relational and NoSQL databases, such as SQL Server and Cassandra
• Strong working knowledge of Linux based systems and knowledge of at least one development language, Python, Go or equivalent
• You have a track record of setting the technical and organizational direction for a growing engineering team across multiple global locations

Benefits that Benefit You

• Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
• Discretionary time off
• Paid parental leave for all
• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Fitness Programs
• Emotional & Development Programs

Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work. *

The Pay: Axon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. The starting base pay for this role is between USD 161,250 in the lowest geographic market and USD 258,000 in the highest geographic market. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: level, function, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, geographic market, and often a combination of all these factors. Our benefits offer an array of options to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. To see more details on our benefits offerings please visit www.axon.com/careers/benefits.

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Don't meet every single requirement? That's ok. At Axon, we Aim Far. We think big with a long-term view because we want to reinvent the world to be a safer, better place. We are also committed to building diverse teams that reflect the communities we serve.

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every box in the job description. If you're excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification listed here, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Important Notes

The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all duties, responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job. The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.

Some roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.

Axon's mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being and safety of its employees as well as Axon's impact on the environment. All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental, health, and safety regulations, policies, and procedures. Axon employees are empowered to report safety concerns as they arise and activities potentially impacting the environment.

We are an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice, advances equity, values diversity and fosters inclusion. We're committed to hiring the best talent - regardless of race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances - and empowering all of our employees so they can do their best work. If you have a disability or special need that requires assistance or accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email [e-mail]. Please note that this email address is for accommodation purposes only. Axon will not respond to inquiries for other purposes.