Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Job Overview

Axion is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to play a key role in shaping and scaling our cloud infrastructure. You'll be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automating deployment workflows, ensuring system reliability and security, and supporting rapid development cycles. This is a hands-on role ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, high-impact environment and is excited to build foundational DevOps systems from the ground up. You'll work closely with engineering leadership to drive infrastructure decisions and enable product teams to ship faster with confidence. This person should reside in EST or CST locations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Axion's cloud infrastructure on GCP, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security


• Own and evolve our Kubernetes-based container orchestration platform and Terraform infrastructure-as-code practices


• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and deployment automation to help engineering teams ship with speed and confidence


• Establish and maintain observability across our stack — logging, metrics, alerting, and tracing — and lead incident response efforts


• Define and track SLOs and SLIs, driving a culture of reliability and continuous improvement


• Contribute to security hardening, compliance posture, and cost optimization across our cloud environment

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering


• Deep hands-on experience with GCP (Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, or similar services)


• Strong proficiency with Kubernetes — cluster management, networking, scaling, and troubleshooting


• Solid Terraform experience — writing modular, reusable, production-grade infrastructure-as-code


• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling


• Strong background in observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent)


• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with a bias toward action


• Experience at a venture-backed startup preferred


• Must be based in the Eastern or Central time zones

Nice to Haves:

• Experience using agents to accelerate delivery


• Experience managing infrastructure for FedRAMP environments

About Us

Founded in 2021, Axion is at the forefront of transforming product quality and customer satisfaction in manufacturing. Our cutting-edge AI-powered platform empowers manufacturers to swiftly identify, thoroughly investigate, and effectively resolve quality issues while simultaneously elevating customer experiences and outcomes.

Axion is a place for people who take pride in their craft and are motivated by meaningful work. We respect time off and boundaries, but we’re also realistic: hard problems sometimes require weekend pushes or late-night thinking sessions. We support that balance — intensity with respect for recharge.

We stay highly collaborative and connected throughout the day — much of our communication happens over Slack. We move quickly, share feedback often, and keep discussions open so decisions and context flow freely. If you value crisp communication, rapid iteration, and a steady hum of collaboration, you’ll fit right in.

We:

Collaborate deeply. Feedback is part of how we build — everyone has a voice, and ideas win on merit.

Leave ego at the door. Titles don’t define value; contribution does.

Bias toward action. We iterate fast and favor progress over perfection.

Communicate with clarity. Direct, transparent, and always in service of the mission.

Act like owners. Everyone is accountable for outcomes, not just tasks.

Sustain excellence. We push hard but don’t glorify burnout — we’re in this for the long game.

If you want to help shape a company redefining how manufacturing operates — and you thrive in a culture that rewards ownership, speed, and candor — you’ll feel at home here

What We Offer

Work with cutting-edge AI technology making a tangible impact in manufacturing

Collaborative, mission-driven team and supportive leadership

Generous time off

Competitive compensation, equity