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Site Reliability Engineer II
Axon · Seattle, WA, United States
Seattle, WA, United StatesExp: 3+ yrs115,500-184,800 USD/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
401(k) with employer match; discretionary paid time off; paid parental leave; medical, dental, and vision plans; fitness programs; emotional and mental wellness support; learning and development programs; employee resource groups
Location
Seattle, WA, United States
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Site Reliability Engineer builds and operates a global Kubernetes platform supporting services across Azure AKS and Amazon EKS clusters in commercial and government clouds. The role owns platform features from design through rollout, automates cluster provisioning and operations with infrastructure as code and GitOps, and improves reliability, security, and cost efficiency, including compliance with requirements such as FIPS.
Benefits
401(k) with employer matchDiscretionary paid time offPaid parental leaveMedical, dental, and vision plansFitness programsEmotional and mental wellness supportLearning and development programsEmployee resource groups
Qualifications
- At least 3 years of experience in platform engineering, site reliability engineering, or infrastructure engineering.
- Production experience building and operating Kubernetes platforms such as AKS or EKS.
- Experience building platforms on Azure or AWS.
- Experience with a programming language such as Python, Go, C#, or Java.
- Experience with CI/CD and Git-based workflows for infrastructure provisioning, builds, tests, and releases.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi, including flexible, testable modules.
- Experience using metrics, logs, traces, or APM tools to debug issues.
- Experience designing tools that simplify SaaS or PaaS operations.
- Hands-on experience applying AI and agentic tooling to engineering or operations work.
- Empathy for software engineers' needs.
- United States citizenship required to obtain CJIS clearance for full access to US production environments.
- Preferred: experience with ArgoCD and Helm, cluster autoscaling, Kubernetes policy and security tools, government or regulated clouds, or 24/7 high-volume systems with formal SLA requirements.
Responsibilities
- Own platform features and components from design through rollout, including design documents and rollout plans.
- Build and operate Kubernetes platforms and tooling for secure, consistent service provisioning.
- Automate cluster provisioning, bootstrapping, upgrades, and ongoing operations with infrastructure as code and GitOps.
- Improve fleet reliability, operability, and cost efficiency through autoscaling and right-sizing.
- Enforce platform policies, remediate vulnerabilities, and address government-cloud requirements such as FIPS.
- Debug cloud-native distributed systems and participate in the on-call rotation.
- Review changes and share operational knowledge with team members and partner teams.
- Create documentation and guides that enable engineering teams to self-serve.
- Use agentic AI tooling to automate platform operations and accelerate engineering work.
Skills
AKSArgo CDAWSAzureC#EKSGatekeeperGitGoHelmJavaKubernetesKyvernoOpen Policy AgentPulumiPythonTerraformElastic APMGitHub ActionsGrafanaOpenTelemetryPrometheus
Languages
PythonGoC#Java
Work schedule
Onsite Tuesday through FridayRemote Monday
Industry
Cloud platform engineeringSafety and justice
Security clearance
CJIS clearance required for full access to US production environments
Relocation
No