Senior Software Engineer, Dedrone Infrastructure

Join Axon and be a Force for Good.

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 Platform Engineer on Dedrones Infrastructure Services team you will accelerate product development by building and maintaining the core infrastructure tooling and automation systems that engineering teams rely on. You will shape the CI/CD ecosystem strengthen observability platforms and deliver scalable secure cloud infrastructure. This role enables deep technical ownership and provides significant opportunities to influence engineering standards developer experience and future platform architecture across the product teams.

What Youll Do

Location: Onsite at our London UK office 4 days a week
Reports to: Engineering Manager Infrastructure Services
Direct Reports: none

• Own design and optimize CI/CD pipelines supporting Dedrones distributed product ecosystemreducing build times deployment friction and manual overhead.
• Build automate and maintain AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or AWS CDK) ensuring scalable secure and reusable cloud environments.
• Maintain and evolve backend services owned by the team
• Architect optimize and secure Docker images and container workflows; support orchestration environments (such as ECS EKS Kubernetes).
• Strengthen and expand Dedrones observability stack metrics logging tracing and alertingleveraging tools such as Grafana Cloudwatch
• Establish and promote engineering best practices across development standards CI/CD patterns infrastructure templates and reusable tooling.
• Partner closely with product engineering teams to understand bottlenecks reduce toil and increase overall developer velocity.
• Contribute to security-focused improvements across the platform CI/CD IAM secrets management and cloud resource hardening.
• Collaborate with Axon platform infrastructure and security teams to align workflows and adopt shared best practices.
• Deliver measurable improvements to system reliability automation and infrastructure scalability.

What You Bring

• 3 years of relevant experience in cloud infrastructure developer tooling backend engineering or platform/DevOps roles with an emphasis on practical hands-on expertise over formal education.
• Proficiency with modern cloud and automation tooling including CI/CD pipeline development AWS services (EC2 ECS/EKS S3 IAM CloudWatch) Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or AWS CDK) and containerization using Docker and orchestration tools such as ECS EKS or Kubernetes.
• Strong engineering fundamentals including backend development experience (e.g. Java Go Python) as well as Linux Bash and scripting skills used for automation debugging and improving developer workflows.
• Experience implementing observability practicesincluding metrics logging and tracingand using insights to diagnose issues improve reliability and elevate developer experience across systems.
• A collaborative approach grounded in Axons valuesshowing ownership candor customer success the courage to boldly go and the ambition to aim far and win rightsupported by a track record of reducing toil resolving bottlenecks and strengthening the overall engineering ecosystem.

Work Location

This role is based out of our London UK office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in-person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesday through Friday with flexibility to work remotely on Mondays unless there is an approved workplace accommodation. We believe that connection fuels innovation and our in-office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork mentorship and shared success.

Benefits that Benefit You

• Competitive base salary and RSUs
• Comprehensive pension plan with matching contribution
• Private health insurance & cash plans
• 30 days paid holiday UK public holidays
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
• GymPass subscription
• Life assurance & income protection
• Career growth support and wellness resources

Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work

Dont meet every single requirement Thats ok. At Axon we Aim Far. We think big with a long-term 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.

Important Notes

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.

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Axons mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being 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.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC