Senior Networking Software Engineer

About This Role

Join Axon's APX platform engineering organization to contribute to the CloudNet team, focusing on delivering solutions for real-time problems encountered by mission-critical cloud-native services. This role demands a passion for high quality and reliability, working closely with global sovereign operations teams, and providing technical guidance on networking to the entire engineering organization.

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, forming the foundation of Axon’s future strategy to scale over the next few years
• Be a builder and operator, advancing new features while stewarding existing system components subject to strict regulatory regimes like FedRAMP
• Manage 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), such as TLS certificate management and automation

Requirements

• Able to gain CJIS clearance to ensure full US production access
• Strong experience working on globally diverse 24/7 high volume systems
• Demonstrated experience and inclination towards networking topics (e.g., VPNs, TLS cert management, debugging network routing issues, 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 (Azure or other experience)
• 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

Skills

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