Senior Networking Software Engineer

About the position

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. Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you'll take ownership and drive real change. As 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 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.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Be a builder and operator, advancing new features while simultaneously stewarding existing system components
• 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)

Requirements

• Able to gain CJIS clearance to ensure full US production access
• Experience with service mesh technologies, such as Envoy and Istio, is required
• 6+ years experience working on globally diverse 24/7 high volume systems
• Demonstrated experience and inclination towards networking topics
• 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
• 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

• 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
• Snacks in our offices