Principal Security Operations Engineer

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.

Were out to make the world a safer place by solving big problems and taking on the public safety challenges of our time. From our companys inception building the TASER device to a full suite of hardware and software solutions we are focused on providing police agencies with state-of-the-art devices and services they need to successfully serve and protect the next few years were going to eliminate the burden of paperwork in policing so officers can increase the time they spend building relationships and serving in their communities. Well put video at the heart of police records so our justice system can get to the truth faster. And we wont stop innovating until the bullet is rendered obsolete. Its a big mission but its one well pursue relentlessly every single day.

As a Principal Security Operations Engineer you will play a key role in building secure reliable and developer-friendly infrastructure that enables teams to move quickly without compromising security. You will solve complex technical challenges improve system reliability through automation and partner closely with engineering teams to scale security capabilities across the this role you will design and develop security tools that support vulnerability management and secure software delivery pipelines integrating security seamlessly into developer workflows. Your work will help reduce friction for developers while ensuring high standards for security reliability and operational efficiency across mission-critical systems.

Location: Seattle WA Scottsdale AZ Boston MA Atlanta GA San Francisco CA

Direct Reports: None

• Lead the review design and continuous improvement of Axons Kubernetes platforms with platform teams to strengthen architecture security resilience and operational practices across existing and new environments.
• Drive the evolution of security application delivery at Axon refactoring how security services are built deployed and operated while establishing automated security controls and guardrails across CI/CD pipelines.
• Architect provision and secure AWS and Azure infrastructure supporting critical security platforms and services leveraging infrastructure-as-code automation and cloud-native best practices.
• Partner with developers SRE and platform engineering teams to influence architecture and ensure security is embedded into infrastructure services and developer workflows by design.
• Provide deep technical leadership during complex security and infrastructure incidents driving root cause analysis durable remediation and engineering improvements that prevent recurrence.
• Advance security observability across cloud and Kubernetes environments through improved telemetry logging metrics detection and actionable alerting.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate operational toil by building and improving internal security tooling automation runbooks and self-service capabilities.
• Establish technical standards and best practices for operating security platforms at scale while mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction across teams.
• Experience designing or operating PKI and certificate management systems at scale is a plus.

• Define and drive the technical strategy for securing Axons cloud-native infrastructure with a strong focus on Kubernetes containerized workloads and AWS/Azure environments.
• Lead architectural reviews and improvements across Axons Kubernetes platforms identifying security reliability and operational gaps and partnering with platform teams to implement scalable solutions.
• Modernize how security applications are built deployed and operated at Axon improving deployment architecture automation CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code to create secure repeatable and resilient delivery patterns.
• Design and implement security guardrails and automated controls across CI/CD and developer workflows enabling engineering teams to move quickly while identifying and addressing security risks early.
• Architect and provision secure highly available AWS and Azure infrastructure for critical security services using infrastructure-as-code and cloud-native technologies.
• Establish and improve security standards for Kubernetes and container ecosystems including cluster hardening workload security RBAC network controls admission policies image security and runtime protection.
• Provide technical leadership for complex security and infrastructure challenges including high-impact incidents architecture decisions and cross-platform security initiatives.
• Partner with SRE Platform Engineering Product Security and development teams to influence technical direction and embed security into platform architecture and engineering practices.
• Drive improvements in security observability automation and operational resilience while reducing manual processes and engineering toil.
• Mentor engineers establish engineering best practices and raise the technical bar for building and operating security platforms across Axon.
• Apply PKI and certificate management expertise where applicable to strengthen security architecture and platform capabilities.

• 10 years of experience in security engineering platform engineering infrastructure SRE or related roles with demonstrated technical leadership across large-scale environments.
• Expert-level Kubernetes experience with deep hands-on knowledge of cluster architecture provisioning upgrades networking RBAC policy enforcement workload security and operating production Kubernetes environments at scale.
• Strong experience reviewing and improving existing Kubernetes platforms identifying architectural and security gaps and driving improvements across multiple engineering teams.
• Deep expertise in AWS and/or Azure including designing provisioning securing and operating highly available cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code.
• Strong software engineering and automation skills with proficiency in languages such as Go Python or similar and experience building production-grade internal platforms services and security tooling.
• Extensive experience designing and improving CI/CD and application deployment architectures including refactoring legacy deployment patterns into secure automated repeatable and scalable solutions.
• Deep understanding of container security and container registries such as ECR and ACR including image lifecycle vulnerability scanning access controls and supply chain security.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native security architecture including network security secrets management workload identity policy enforcement and runtime protection.
• Experience implementing security guardrails and automated controls that improve security while minimizing friction for developers.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code experience with technologies such as Terraform Helm GitOps or similar tooling.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems and lead technical response to high-impact security infrastructure and production incidents.
• Experience designing security observability capabilities across cloud and Kubernetes environments including logging metrics detection and actionable alerting.
• Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership across organizational boundaries influence architecture and engineering direction and drive complex initiatives without requiring direct authority.
• Ability to mentor senior engineers establish engineering standards and raise the technical bar across security platform and infrastructure teams.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex security and infrastructure challenges into clear technical direction and actionable engineering plans.
• Experience with PKI certificate management or machine identity at scale is a plus.
• US Citizenship.

• Competitive salary and 401K with employer match
• Discretionary paid time off
• Robust parental leave policy
• An award-winning office/working environment
• Ride along with real police officers in real life situations see them use technology get inspired
• And more...