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Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Axon 911

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New York, NY, USA
141K-217K Annually
Senior level
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New York, NY, USA
141K-217K Annually
Senior level
Own reliability, observability, and operational excellence for the Unified Call (911) platform. Design monitoring, alerting, incident response, deployment automation, and dashboards. Improve system resiliency, analyze architecture for operational risks, and build tooling and practices to enable reliable production operations across a Kubernetes-based cloud environment.
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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. Like our products, we work better together. We connect with candor and care, seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers, communities and each other.
Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you’ll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.

About Axon 911

Axon 911 brings together Prepared and Carbyne under Axon. Together, we are creating the only platform that combines modern 911 infrastructure with an AI intelligence layer—helping public safety agencies move faster, make better decisions, and deliver better outcomes in the moments that matter most.
911 is the backbone of public safety, yet the professionals behind it have long been held back by outdated technology. Axon 911 is here to change that. Joining this team means more than taking a job—it means helping shape the future of emergency response and building a safer, more connected world.

Position Overview

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you'll own the reliability, observability, and operational excellence of our Unified Call (UC) platform—the mission-critical system responsible for handling 911 calls.

This is a foundational role on a growing Platform Engineering team. You’ll help evolve the systems, tooling, and operational practices that support our applications today while building the foundation for the next phase of our growth. You'll have significant ownership, high visibility, and the opportunity to shape how reliability engineering is practiced across one of the company's most important products.

This is a hybrid role, with an expectation of four days per week in our Manhattan office.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and improve observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response across the Unified Call platform.
  • Build and mature deployment processes that improve reliability and reduce operational risk.
  • Partner closely with Platform Engineering and the Unified Call engineering team to improve system resiliency and uptime.
  • Analyze system architecture, identify operational risks, and implement improvements before they become customer-impacting incidents.
  • Develop dashboards, automation, and operational tooling that enable engineers to confidently operate production systems.
  • Help establish Site Reliability Engineering best practices as the organization continues to scale.
What Make You a Great Fit

We're looking for someone who has:

  • 5+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Platform Engineer, or similar role.
  • Strong experience with observability platforms (Datadog strongly preferred).
  • Experience supporting Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.
  • Experience designing monitoring, alerting, deployments, and operational automation for production systems.
  • Experience working with message queues, event-driven architectures, or messaging platforms such as RabbitMQ or Kafka.
  • Working knowledge of cloud networking fundamentals.

We believe this role requires someone who is comfortable:

  • Building systems from the ground up rather than maintaining mature environments.
  • Taking ownership of ambiguous technical problems with minimal direction.
  • Leading operational improvements rather than simply executing assigned tickets.
  • Collaborating across engineering teams while driving initiatives independently.
Bonus (optional)
  • Telephony or communications infrastructure experience (strong bonus)
  • Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical distributed systems
Benefits that Benefit You
  • Competitive salary and 401k with employer match 
  • Discretionary time off 
  • Paid parental leave for all 
  • Medical, Dental, Vision plans 
  • Fitness Programs 
  • Emotional & Development Programs 
  • And yes, we have snacks in our offices 

Axon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. 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 https://www.axon.com/careers.

Base Pay Range
$141,000$216,600 USD

Don’t meet every single requirement? That's ok. At Axon, we Aim Far. We think big with a long-term view because we want to reinvent the world to be a safer, better place. We are also committed to building diverse teams that reflect the communities we serve.

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every box in the job description. If you’re excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification listed here, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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.

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Axon’s mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being and safety of its employees as well as Axon’s impact on the environment. All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental, health, and safety regulations, policies, and procedures. Axon employees are empowered to report safety concerns as they arise and activities potentially impacting the environment.

We are an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice, advances equity, values diversity and fosters inclusion. We’re committed to hiring the best talent — regardless of race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances — and empowering all of our employees so they can do their best work. If you have a disability or special need that requires assistance or accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email [email protected].  Please note that this email address is for accommodation purposes only. Axon will not respond to inquiries for other purposes.

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