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. 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.

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, but form the foundation of Axon’s future strategy to scale over the next few years.
• Be a builder and operator, advancing new features while simultaneously stewarding existing system components subject to strict regulatory regimes like FedRAMP, managing vulnerabilities with timely precision.
• 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.
• 6+ years experience working on globally diverse 24/7 high volume systems.
• A demonstrated experience and inclination towards networking topics, anything from infrastructure (e.g. VPNs, TLS cert management, debugging network routing issues) to services (e.g. service mesh applications, rate limiting, public and private ingress and egress).
• 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 (Axon uses Azure, but other experience is fine).
• 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.