Senior Site Reliability Engineer I

About Axon: 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

As a Senior SRE on the APX SRE CloudOps team, you will design and build the cloud infrastructure and automation platforms that Axon's product engineering teams depend on. You will architect solutions for multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS), FedRAMP compliance boundaries, and large-scale Kubernetes platforms serving production workloads across multiple regions. You will spend a significant portion of your time writing code: building services, APIs, and internal tooling using languages like Go and Python. You will also participate in on-call rotations and incident response, using operational experience to drive reliability improvements and inform platform investment. This role combines software engineering depth with cloud architecture at scale and production ownership.

Location

This role is based out of our Atlanta, Seattle, or Boston office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in-person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation. We believe that connection fuels innovation, and our in-office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success.

What You'll Do

• Design and implement services, APIs, and automation tooling that improve cloud infrastructure reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Write production-quality code in Go, Python, or similar. Lead design reviews and set code quality standards within the team.
• Build robust, easy-to-use foundational platforms and tools that enable engineering teams to provision services rapidly, consistently, securely, and cost-effectively.
• Architect cloud infrastructure across Azure and AWS, including Kubernetes platforms, networking, and identity boundaries.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response. Use operational experience to identify systemic reliability risks and drive platform improvements.
• Foresee and mitigate risks in infrastructure design: single points of failure, scaling bottlenecks, security gaps, and compliance drift.
• Influence and educate the engineering organization to adopt new and improved architectural patterns.
• Leverage AI tooling and agentic workflows to accelerate engineering delivery and operational automation.
• Provide robust documentation for use by engineers to promote self-service.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code review, design guidance, and pairing.

What You Bring

• This position involves handling of classified federal data; under federal regulations, it is open to U.S. citizens only.
• 8+ years of applicable experience in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, or site reliability engineering.
• Experience designing and operating cloud platforms at scale across Azure, AWS, or similar.
• Proficiency in one or more managed languages (Go, Python, Java, C#) in the context of building services, not just scripting.
• Experience architecting and operating Kubernetes platforms (AKS, EKS, or similar) at production scale.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, or similar) for managing multi-environment, multi-region infrastructure.
• 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.
• Track record of leading design reviews, writing technical proposals, and setting engineering standards within a team.
• Builder-operator mindset with proven production ownership (uptime, SLOs, on-call, incident leadership).
• Experience mentoring engineers and conducting technical interviews.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools to accelerate engineering workflows is a strong plus.

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
• And yes, we have snacks in our offices

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

Axon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. 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 https://www.axon.com/careers.

Base Pay Range

$150,000—$180,000 USD

Key skills/competency

• Site Reliability Engineering
• Cloud Infrastructure Architecture
• Kubernetes
• Go and Python Development
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• CI/CD Automation
• Observability Tools
• Incident Response
• Mentorship
• Multi-cloud Environments (AWS, Azure)