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At Axon, were on a mission to Protect Life. Were explorers, pursuing societys 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, youll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter. Your Impact As a senior contributor in the APX SRE organization, you are passionate about delivering solutions to the real-time problems our missioncritical cloud native services encounterand youre relentless about the high quality, reliability, and security our customers demand. You will work closely not only with the APX SRE organization, but your technical deliverables will reach the entire engineering organization to enable product teams to continuously deliver features on the vanguard of innovation. In this role, youll have a meaningful impact in Identity and Security, helping teams build and operate systems that protect user identity, strengthen authentication/authorization flows, and meet compliance expectations. Youll partner closely with engineering, security, and identity stakeholders to raise the bar on securebydefault reliability practices across the organization. Location : Remoteanywhere in Canada What Youll Do Build robust, easy-to-use foundational platforms and tools that enable engineering teams to provision services rapidly, consistently, securely, and with high test confidence. Exemplify cloud-native site reliability best practices with a strong emphasis on testability, automation, and resilience in distributed systems. Design and implement test strategies and frameworks that validate reliability, performance, and security requirements (e.g., integration, end-to-end, chaos/resiliency, and regression suites). Write code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise. Employ strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to debug problems in cloud-native distributed systems using logs, metrics, traces, and automated diagnostics. Contribute to platform features and tooling by designing clear, well-tested APIs in Go or Python. Partner with Identity and Security teams to support and strengthen user identity lifecycle and access controls, authentication and authorization patterns, Okta integrations (e.g., SSO, OIDC/SAML flows, group/role mapping, policy enforcement), and compliance-aligned controls and security best practices. Help ensure systems meet operational and regulatory expectations through secure engineering practices (least privilege, secrets management, auditability, change control, and secure SDLC). Author design docs, test plans, threat-aware test cases, and usage guides to promote selfservice. Take calculated risks, champion new ideas, and cultivate your craft. What You Bring 6+ years of applicable software engineering or SRE experience 3+ years experience managing cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or similar. Experience operating in Kubernetes platforms like AKS, EKS, or similar. Experience using managed languages such as Python, Go, C#, Java, or similar with demonstrable API and unit/integration testing experience. Experience utilizing CI/CD platforms to automate provisioning infrastructure, software builds, releases, and automated test pipelines. Experience using observability tools such as APM, logging, and metrics to assist with debugging issues and reliability improvements. Experience designing tooling to simplify the operational management of SaaS/PaaS systems, including test automation and validation tooling. Familiarity with building flexible and testable Infrastructure as Code modules. Experience or strong working knowledge of identity and access management (IAM) concepts and secure authentication/authorization patterns. Experience integrating with or supporting Okta (or similar IdP) and identity standards like OIDC/SAML is a strong asset. Empathy to support the needs of software engineers. Ability to obtain RCMP Enhanced Reliability Status and Secret clearance. Dont meet every single requirement? That''''s ok. At Axon, we Aim Far. We think big with a longterm 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 youre excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesnt 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. 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. Axons mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the wellbeing and safety of its employees as well as Axons 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. Were 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr