Remote Senior Database Reliability Engineer II

Summary

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.

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; Masters degree a plus
• 10+ years of professional software development experience; Platform automation tooling and/or developer experience tooling a plus
• Experience and depth designing complex systems at scale
• Experience and depth with microservice architectures and patterns; Monolith migrations to microservice architectures a plus
• 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

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