Senior Site Reliability Engineer, 911

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Axon 911

New York, New York, United States

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.

• 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.

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.

• Telephony or communications infrastructure experience (strong bonus)
• Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical distributed systems

• 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.

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