Site Reliability Engineer I

📋 Job Overview

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.

🏢 About Axon

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.

🎯 The Role

As an SRE contributor in Axon’s Real Time Operations 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 your peers, but also the RTO engineering teams, allowing your technical deliverables to reach the entire engineering organization, enabling product teams to continuously deliver features on the vanguard of innovation and helping scale our products to thousands of agencies around the world.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• 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.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 3+ 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, C#, 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

• Competitive base salary and equity
• Comprehensive pension plan with matching contribution
• Private health insurance & cash plans
• 30 days paid holiday + UK public holidays
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
• GymPass subscription
• Life assurance & income protection
• Career growth support and wellness resources