Site Reliability Engineer II

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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.

As a Site Reliability Engineer II within the APX SRE organization, you’ll focus on delivering practical, scalable solutions to support the reliability and performance of our mission‑critical, cloud‑native global Kubernetes platform and the services that run on it. You care deeply about system stability, clear documentation, and creating tools that improve the developer experience.

Work Location:

This role is based out of our Boston office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in‑person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation. We believe that connection fuels innovation, and our in‑office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success.

• Build robust, easy‑to‑use Kubernetes platforms and tools that enable engineering teams to provision and operate 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.
• Continuously seek improvement within our Kubernetes platform for improved reliability, operability, and cost efficiency.
• Take calculated risks, champion new ideas, and cultivate your craft.

• 3+ years of applicable experience in platform engineering and container orchestration.
• Experience building platforms on clouds such as Azure and AWS.
• Experience building, operating, and innovating clustering solutions for Kubernetes platforms like AKS, EKS, or similar at scale.
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, Go, C#, Java, or similar.
• Experience with code collaboration tools such as Git Hub, ArgoCD, 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 using Infrastructure as Code tools for provisioning infrastructure such as Terraform, Pulumi, or similar.
• 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.

• Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
• Discretionary time off
• Paid parental leave for all
• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Fitness programs
• Emotional & development programs
• And yes, we have snacks in our offices

Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work. Axon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as level, function, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, geographic market, and often a combination of all these factors.

Our benefits offer an array of options to help support you physically, financially, and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. To see more details on our benefits offerings please visit

The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all duties, responsibilities,…