[Hiring] Sr. Site Reliability Engineer I @Axon

Role Description

As a senior contributor in the APX SRE organization, you are passionate about delivering solutions to the real-time problems our mission-critical cloud native services encounter—and you’re relentless about the high quality, reliability, and security our customers demand.

• Work closely with the APX SRE organization and the entire engineering organization to enable product teams to continuously deliver features on the vanguard of innovation.
• Have a meaningful impact in Identity and Security, helping teams build and operate systems that protect user identity, strengthen authentication/authorization flows, and meet compliance expectations.
• Partner closely with engineering, security, and identity stakeholders to raise the bar on secure-by-default reliability practices across the organization.

What You’ll Do

• Build robust, easy-to-use foundational platforms and tools that enable engineering teams to provision services rapidly, consistently, securely, and with high test confidence.
• Exemplify cloud-native site reliability best practices with a strong emphasis on testability, automation, and resilience in distributed systems.
• Design and implement test strategies and frameworks that validate reliability, performance, and security requirements (e.g., integration, end-to-end, chaos/resiliency, and regression suites).
• Write code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise.
• Employ strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to debug problems in cloud-native distributed systems using logs, metrics, traces, and automated diagnostics.
• Contribute to platform features and tooling by designing clear, well-tested APIs in Go or Python.
• Partner with Identity and Security teams to support and strengthen user identity lifecycle and access controls, authentication and authorization patterns, Okta integrations (e.g., SSO, OIDC/SAML flows, group/role mapping, policy enforcement), and compliance-aligned controls and security best practices.
• Help ensure systems meet operational and regulatory expectations through secure engineering practices (least privilege, secrets management, auditability, change control, and secure SDLC).
• Author design docs, test plans, threat-aware test cases, and usage guides to promote self-service.
• Take calculated risks, champion new ideas, and cultivate your craft.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of applicable software engineering or SRE experience
• 3+ years experience managing cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or similar.
• Experience operating in Kubernetes platforms like AKS, EKS, or similar.
• Experience using managed languages such as Python, Go, C#, Java, or similar with demonstrable API and unit/integration testing experience.
• Experience utilizing CI/CD platforms to automate provisioning infrastructure, software builds, releases, and automated test pipelines.
• Experience using observability tools such as APM, logging, and metrics to assist with debugging issues and reliability improvements.
• Experience designing tooling to simplify the operational management of SaaS/PaaS systems, including test automation and validation tooling.
• Familiarity with building flexible and testable Infrastructure as Code modules.
• Experience or strong working knowledge of identity and access management (IAM) concepts and secure authentication/authorization patterns.
• Experience integrating with or supporting Okta (or similar IdP) and identity standards like OIDC/SAML is a strong asset.
• Empathy to support the needs of software engineers.
• Ability to obtain RCMP Enhanced Reliability Status and Secret clearance.

Important Notes

• The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all duties, responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job.
• The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.
• Some roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.