Axon
Senior Networking Software Engineer
Axon, Seattle, Washington, us, 98127
Your ImpactAs a contributor in the APX platform engineering organization on the CloudNet team, you are passionate about delivering solutions to the real-time problems our mission-critical cloud native services encounter. You are also obsessed about achieving the high quality and reliability our customers demand. You will work closely with sovereign operations teams that operate Axon systems around the world, and your technical influence will extend to the entire engineering organization because every team needs guidance situating their product in the larger networking reality of the overall Axon ecosystem.
What You’ll DoLocation:
Scottsdale, Seattle, Boston, AtlantaReports to:
Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering
Work on a mixed infrastructure/software team that owns the most important networking-related aspects of Axon systems.
Lead Axon’s journey into Istio service mesh applications that are still in their infancy at Axon, but form the foundation of Axon’s future strategy to scale over the next few years.
Be a builder and operator, advancing new features while simultaneously stewarding existing system components subject to strict regulatory regimes like FedRAMP, managing vulnerabilities with timely precision.
Advise software engineers on networking topics through design reviews, ad hoc questions, and pair programming sessions.
Automate routine maintenance of the cloud platform with minimal downtime (4x9s availability). Example: TLS certificate management and automation is a sprawling responsibility in large systems, a mine-field of potential unforced errors that can impact availability.
What You Bring
Able to gain CJIS clearance to ensure full US production access.
6+ years experience working on globally diverse 24/7 high volume systems.
A demonstrated experience and inclination towards networking topics, anything from infrastructure (e.g. VPNs, TLS cert management, debugging network routing issues) to services (e.g. service mesh applications, rate limiting, public and private ingress and egress).
Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to debug problems in cloud native distributed systems.
Familiarity with the GitOps approach to software delivery.
Design and delivery of infrastructure-as-code on public cloud (Axon uses Azure, but other experience is fine).
Experience operating components or services in Kubernetes clusters at scale.
Experience in one or more of these common languages used at Axon: Python, Golang, Scala/Java.
Empathy to support the needs of software engineers with widely varying levels of awareness of networking concepts.
Benefits that Benefit You
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.
Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work.
The Pay: Axon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. The starting base pay for this role is between USD 120,000 in the lowest geographic market and USD 230,000 in the highest geographic market. 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
www.axon.com/careers/benefits .
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What You’ll DoLocation:
Scottsdale, Seattle, Boston, AtlantaReports to:
Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering
Work on a mixed infrastructure/software team that owns the most important networking-related aspects of Axon systems.
Lead Axon’s journey into Istio service mesh applications that are still in their infancy at Axon, but form the foundation of Axon’s future strategy to scale over the next few years.
Be a builder and operator, advancing new features while simultaneously stewarding existing system components subject to strict regulatory regimes like FedRAMP, managing vulnerabilities with timely precision.
Advise software engineers on networking topics through design reviews, ad hoc questions, and pair programming sessions.
Automate routine maintenance of the cloud platform with minimal downtime (4x9s availability). Example: TLS certificate management and automation is a sprawling responsibility in large systems, a mine-field of potential unforced errors that can impact availability.
What You Bring
Able to gain CJIS clearance to ensure full US production access.
6+ years experience working on globally diverse 24/7 high volume systems.
A demonstrated experience and inclination towards networking topics, anything from infrastructure (e.g. VPNs, TLS cert management, debugging network routing issues) to services (e.g. service mesh applications, rate limiting, public and private ingress and egress).
Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to debug problems in cloud native distributed systems.
Familiarity with the GitOps approach to software delivery.
Design and delivery of infrastructure-as-code on public cloud (Axon uses Azure, but other experience is fine).
Experience operating components or services in Kubernetes clusters at scale.
Experience in one or more of these common languages used at Axon: Python, Golang, Scala/Java.
Empathy to support the needs of software engineers with widely varying levels of awareness of networking concepts.
Benefits that Benefit You
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.
Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work.
The Pay: Axon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. The starting base pay for this role is between USD 120,000 in the lowest geographic market and USD 230,000 in the highest geographic market. 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
www.axon.com/careers/benefits .
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