Sr. Software Engineer II

Washington · Washington-Office · USD 148,500-237,600 · Hybrid · Posted Oct 14, 2026

At a glance

As a contributor in the APX platform engineering organization on the CloudNet team, you focus on solving real-time problems for mission-critical cloud-native services.
Your technical influence extends across engineering because every product needs sound guidance for how it connects and scales in Axon's overall networking picture.

Work on a mixed infrastructure and software team that owns critical platform networking for Axon's cloud systems: mesh and ingress, TLS and certificate automation, DNS and edge routing, and the automation that keeps those paths safe and observable.
Advance Axon's use of Istio-style service mesh patterns that underpin how we scale—building features, hardening what runs in production, and improving how we roll out change.
Act as a builder and operator: ship infrastructure-as-code and software-backed controls, steward components that must meet strict regulatory expectations (including FedRAMP where applicable), and address vulnerabilities with timely, disciplined change.
Advise software engineers through design reviews, ad hoc questions, and pair programming when connectivity, ingress, mesh, or TLS behavior is on the critical path.
Automate operations so the platform stays highly available (targeting four-nines-class reliability for these components).

Six or more years working on globally diverse, 24/7, high-volume production systems.
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science
Operating critical components or services in Kubernetes clusters at meaningful scale (ingress, gateways, mesh, or similar).
Infrastructure-as-code and automated delivery on public cloud.
Production software in Python, Go, or Java (including Scala) for infrastructure, tooling, or reliable services—not only one-off scripts.
Production ownership of service mesh, ingress, TLS/certificate automation, DNS or public-edge patterns, or secure east-west traffic in cloud environments.
Excellent problem-solving skills debugging cloud-native distributed systems (HTTP/TLS, DNS, load balancing, Kubernetes networking).

Familiarity with a GitOps-style approach to software and infrastructure delivery.

This role is based out of our Seattle office and follows a hybrid schedule.
Team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation.