Axon is dedicated to protecting life and addressing critical safety and justice issues through their innovative devices and cloud software. The Site Reliability Engineer I will contribute to the APX platform engineering organization, focusing on delivering solutions for real-time problems and ensuring high quality and reliability of Axon's cloud native services.
Responsibilities
- Work on a mixed infrastructure/software team that owns the most important networking-related aspects of Axon systems, including the public edge of Axon’s products
- Help the team with Axon’s journey into Istio service mesh applications that are still in their infancy at Axon, but form the foundation of Axon’s future strategy to scale over the next few years
- Be a builder and operator, advancing new features while simultaneously stewarding existing system components subject to strict regulatory regimes like FedRAMP, managing vulnerabilities with timely precision
- Advise software engineers on networking topics through design reviews, ad hoc questions, and pair programming sessions
- Automate routine maintenance of the cloud platform with minimal downtime (4x9s availability). Example: TLS certificate management and automation is a sprawling responsibility in large systems, a mine-field of potential unforced errors that can impact availability
Skills
- Proficient in one or more of these common languages used at Axon: Python, Golang, Scala/Java (must pass coding test)
- Meaningful experience (educational or professional) in at least a few of these areas
- Working on globally diverse 24/7 high volume systems
- Experience and inclination towards networking topics, anything from infrastructure (e.g. building the network layer in AWS or Azure, TLS cert management, debugging network routing issues) to services (e.g. service mesh applications, rate limiting, public and private ingress and egress)
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to debug problems in cloud-native distributed systems
- Familiarity with the GitOps approach to software delivery (example tool: ArgoCD)
- Design and delivery of infrastructure-as-code on public cloud (Axon uses Azure and AWS, but other experience is fine)
- Experience operating components or services in Kubernetes clusters at scale
Benefits
- Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
- Discretionary paid time off
- Paid parental leave for all
- Medical, Dental, Vision plans
- Fitness Programs
- Emotional & Mental Wellness support
- Learning & Development programs
- And yes, we have snacks in our offices
Company Overview
Axon provides electronic control devices to law enforcement and corrections agencies. It was founded in 1993, and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.axon.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Axon has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 3 in 2026, 3 in 2025, 3 in 2024, 7 in 2023, 2 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.