Axon is hiring a
Database Reliability Engineer II in United States

Summary

The job is a software development role in the Platform team at Axon, focusing on cloud challenges and database management. The role involves leading coding, configuration management, mentoring junior team members, and collaborating with peers to make decisions regarding datastore technologies. The position is remote within the United States.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering, OR graduate of coding boot camp, or related field experience
• 6+ years of professional software development experience
• Working knowledge of Linux based systems and Shell commands and scripting
• Experience with Cloud hosted services (i.e. built and deployed under Azure, AWS, or another cloud provider)
• Experience and with one or more SQL, noSQL, or streaming data system, and interested in acquiring deep expertise in same

Responsibilities

• Lead coding, configuration management, and code reviews to improve individual systems
• Tackle the difficult problems we face in a long term sustainable manner
• Mentor the more junior members of the team and join forces with our application pillar peers to make the best decision for the applications as it relates to their consumption of SQL/NoSQL technologies
• Moving their team/group from manual/operational work on database to automation
• Migrating larger on-premises or VM based database offerings to PaaS or k8s based offerings
• Join forces with team peers and our application pillar peers to make the best decision for the applications as it relates to their consumption of datastore technologies
• Developing automation and designs that allow application teams to scale up and out
• Partner with our application teams to troubleshoot and suggest optimizations around data service

Preferred Qualifications

• Interested in writing tools/automation and documentation to allow teams to “self-serve” without routing through you
• Bonus: Terraform
• Double Bonus: Ansible and Ansible Tower/AWX

Benefits

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