Site Reliability Engineer II
Axon - Boston, MA
Hiring: Site Reliability Engineer II Company: Axon Location: Boston, MA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 19:56:37 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Azure, Cassandra, Datadog, GCP, GitOps, Grafana, Infrastructure as Code, Kafka, Kubernetes, LLM, Microservices, MySQL, New Relic, PostgreSQL, Pulumi, Terraform About the job Experience: •4+ years of professional software engineering experience; background in platform automation tooling or developer experience tooling a plus Required Skills: •Every body camera upload. Every piece of digital evidence. Every chain of custody log that holds up in court. That's us. •Axon's Platform team is the engine behind what hundreds of thousands of officers rely on every day. We're one of the world's largest blob storage customers, ingesting tens of petabytes of video and that number keeps climbing. Audio, photographs, sensor streams: if it's evidence, we move it, store it, and protect it. •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 •Partner cross-functionally with engineering teams across Axon to support application design patterns as they relate to platform service consumption •Architect and deliver 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 Qualifications: •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 •Operational familiarity with agentic AI tooling or LLM-powered developer tools •Solid experience with microservice architectures and patterns •Solid functional working knowledge of cloud hosted services and architectures across Azure, AWS, or GCP •Applied hands-on capability in observability platforms such as Grafana, Datadog, or New Relic •Operational familiarity with relational and/or NoSQL datastores (e.g., MySQL, Cassandra, PostgreSQL) •Solid functional working knowledge of infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi •Competitive salary and 401k with employer match •Paid parental leave for all Compensation: •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) •Competitive salary and 401k with employer match Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!