Senior Platform Engineer

Responsibilities

• Every body camera upload. Every piece of digital evidence. Every chain of custody log that holds up in court. That's us.
• Drive agentic coding workflows, infrastructure as code practices, and technical code reviews across the platform
• Lead long term architectural decisions and standardization efforts for Axon's platform technologies
• Design and build a Kubernetes based platform that automates the lifecycle management of Axon's core infrastructure
• Collaborate with engineering teams across Axon to guide application design patterns as they relate to platform service consumption
• Build and operate a self service platform that vends datastore solutions with well defined, best practice utilization patterns
• Partner directly with application teams to diagnose and resolve datastore performance bottlenecks and optimization opportunities
• What You Bring
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering; Master's degree a plus
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience; background in platform automation tooling or developer experience tooling strongly preferred
• Proven ability to design and operate complex distributed systems at scale
• Deep experience with microservice architectures and patterns; experience migrating monoliths to microservices is a plus
• Strong command 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 a range of relational and NoSQL datastores, with the ability to go deep on at least one (e.g., MySQL, Cassandra, PostgreSQL)
• Experience designing and operating message queue systems such as Kafka
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi
• Benefits That Benefit You
• Competitive salary and 401(k) with employer match
• Discretionary paid time off
• Paid parental leave for all parents
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Fitness programs
• Emotional and mental wellness support
• Learning and development programs
• Snacks in our offices (yes, really)
• Benefits may vary based on employment type and work location._

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Additional Information

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.

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