Staff Software Engineer, Database Reliability

Axonposted 16 days ago

$171,000 - $273,000/Yr

Full-time • Senior

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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. In the Axon's Platform team, we're solving some of the hardest cloud challenges today. We provide the underlying system that ingests tens of petabytes of video from hundreds of thousands of officers around the world. We ensure that these videos are uploaded accurately, stored safely and permanently, and with audit-logging to track chain of custody and use. We also handle a growing set of other types of evidence: audio, photographs, sensor streams, you name it. We are one of the world’s largest customers of Blob storage. We're now at the ‘knee of the curve’, as we are transitioning to industrial-strength reliability and modern cloud software offerings. If you enjoy working on large-scale projects, and collaboratively leading and setting the technical direction of a team, this role is for you.

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

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; 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.