About the role
<div class="content-intro"><h4><strong>Join Axon and be a Force for Good.</strong></h4> <p>At Axon, we’re on a mission to Protect Life. We’re explorers, pursuing society’s 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.<br><br>Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you’ll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.</p></div><h3>Your Impact</h3> <p>As a senior contributor in the APX SRE organization, you are passionate about delivering solutions to the real-time problems our mission-critical cloud native services encounter—and you’re 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.<br><br>In this role, you’ll 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. You’ll partner closely with engineering, security, and identity stakeholders to raise the bar on secure-by-default reliability practices across the organization.</p> <hr> <h4><strong>Location</strong>: Remote—anywhere in Canada</h4> <h3>What You’ll Do</h3> <ul> <li>Build robust, easy-to-use foundational platforms and tools that enable engineering teams to provision services rapidly, consistently, securely, and with high test confidence.</li> <li>Exemplify cloud-native site reliability best practices with a strong emphasis on testability, automation, and resilience in distributed systems.</li> <li>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).</li> <li>Write code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise.</li> <li>Employ strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to debug problems in cloud-native distributed systems using logs, metrics, traces, and automated diagnostics.</li> <li>Contribute to platform features and tooling by designing clear, well-tested APIs in Go or Python.</li> <li>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,