Site Reliability Engineer I

Overview

In this SRE role within Axon’s Real Time Operations, you’ll build robust, cloud-native platforms to support mission-critical services and ensure high reliability for customers. You will collaborate with RTO teams to scale products for thousands of agencies worldwide and promote self-service tooling. The role emphasizes strong problem-solving, architectural influence, and clear documentation to empower engineers. You’ll work in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment that rewards ownership and continuous improvement.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive base salary and equity
• Comprehensive pension plan with matching contribution
• Private health insurance & cash plans
• 30 days paid holiday + UK public holidays
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
• GymPass subscription

Responsibilities

• Build foundational, scalable platforms and tools to provision services securely and quickly
• Apply cloud-native SRE best practices across systems
• Write performant, maintainable code and debug distributed cloud-native systems
• Influence engineering practices and adopt improved architectural patterns
• Create robust documentation to enable self-service for engineers
• Take calculated risks and advocate for new ideas and craft
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver features and support scale

Key requirements

• 3+ years of relevant experience
• Experience managing cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or similar)
• Experience operating Kubernetes platforms (AKS, EKS, or similar)
• Experience with managed languages (Python, Go, C#, Java)
• Experience using CI/CD to automate infrastructure, builds, tests, and releases
• Experience with observability tools (APM, logging, metrics) to diagnose issues
• Experience designing tooling to simplify operational management of SaaS/PaaS
• Familiarity with building flexible, testable Infrastructure as Code modules
• Empathy to support software engineers

• Empathy
• Collaborative mindset
• Strong problem-solving
• Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS)
• Kubernetes (AKS, EKS)
• Programming languages (Python, Go, C#, Java)

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