Senior Database Reliability Engineer II

Summary

Join Axon's Platform team and contribute to solving challenging cloud infrastructure problems. This remote role involves leading the development and optimization of Axon's datastore platform, utilizing cutting-edge technologies like Kubernetes and various cloud services. You will lead coding, configuration management, and code reviews, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure efficient and scalable data management. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in software development, cloud technologies, and large-scale system design. Axon offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.

Requirements

• This position involves handling of classified federal data; under federal regulations, it is open to US Citizens only
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or relevant work experience
• 10+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience and depth designing complex systems at scale
• Experience and depth with microservice architectures and patterns
• Experience and depth with Cloud (i.e. Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.) hosted services, architectures, and patterns
• Experience and depth with observability platforms like Grafana, DataDog, or New Relic
• Experience with various relational and noSQL datastore solutions with the ability to go deep on at least one technology (e.g. MySQL, Cassandra, etc.)
• Experience and depth with queueing solutions like Kafka
• Experience and depth with IaC platforms like Terraform, Pulumi, etc

Responsibilities

• Lead coding, configuration management, and code reviews
• Lead and participate in datastore optimization and long-term choices to standardize Axon's datastore platform
• Build out an automated k8s-based platform to manage the lifecycle of datastore technologies
• Join forces with peers across Axon to facilitate application design as it relates to the consumption of datastore technologies
• Develop a platform that vends datastore solutions and promotes best-practice utilization patterns
• Partner with our application teams to troubleshoot and suggest datastore utilization optimizations

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree
• Platform automation tooling and/or developer experience tooling
• Monolith migrations to microservice architectures

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