Site Reliability Engineer II

Contribute to agentic coding workflows, infrastructure as code practices, and technical code reviews across the platform

Support architectural decisions and standardization efforts for Axon's platform technologies, under the guidance of senior team members

Help design and build a Kubernetes based platform that automates the lifecycle management of Axon's core infrastructure

Collaborate with engineering teams across Axon to support application design patterns as they relate to platform service consumption

Help build and operate a self service platform that vends datastore solutions with well defined, best practice utilization patterns

Partner with application teams to diagnose and resolve datastore performance bottlenecks and optimization opportunities

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering; Master's degree a plus

United States Citizen — able to gain CJIS clearance for full US production access

4+ years of professional software engineering experience; background in platform automation tooling or developer experience tooling a plus

Experience designing and operating distributed systems, with a desire to grow into larger-scale architectural work

Familiarity with agentic AI tooling or LLM-powered developer tools

Solid experience with microservice architectures and patterns

Working knowledge of cloud hosted services and architectures across Azure, AWS, or GCP

Hands on experience with observability platforms such as Grafana, Datadog, or New Relic

Familiarity with relational and/or NoSQL datastores (e.g., MySQL, Cassandra, PostgreSQL)

Experience with message queue systems such as Kafka

Working knowledge of infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi

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