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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.\nLife 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.\nJob Description - Principal Security Operations Engineer\nOur mission is to protect life\nWe’re out to make the world a safer place by solving big problems and taking on the public safety challenges of our time. From our company's 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 us. In the next few years, we're going to eliminate the burden of paperwork in policing, so officers can increase the time they spend building relationships and serving in their communities. We’ll put video at the heart of police records so our justice system can get to the truth faster. And we won't stop innovating until the bullet is rendered obsolete. It’s a big mission, but it’s one we’ll pursue relentlessly every single day.\nYour Impact\nAs 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 organization. In this role, you will design and develop security tools that support vulnerability management and secure software delivery pipelines, integrating security seamlessly into developer workflows. 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architecture and ensure security is embedded into infrastructure, services, and developer workflows by design.\nProvide deep technical leadership during complex security and infrastructure incidents, driving root cause analysis, durable remediation, and engineering improvements that prevent recurrence.\nAdvance security observability across cloud and Kubernetes environments through improved telemetry, logging, metrics, detection, and actionable alerting.\nIdentify opportunities to eliminate operational toil by building and improving internal security tooling, automation, runbooks, and self-service capabilities.\nEstablish technical standards and best practices for operating security platforms at scale, while mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction across teams.\nExperience designing or operating PKI and certificate management systems at scale is a plus.\nWhat you’ll Do\nDefine and drive the technical strategy for securing Axon’s cloud-native infrastructure, with a 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SRE, or related roles, with demonstrated technical leadership across large-scale environments.\nExpert-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.\nStrong experience reviewing and improving existing Kubernetes platforms, identifying architectural and security gaps, and driving improvements across multiple engineering teams.\nDeep expertise in AWS and/or Azure, including designing, provisioning, securing, and operating highly available cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code.\nStrong 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.\nExtensive experience designing and improving CI/CD and application deployment architectures, including refactoring legacy deployment patterns into secure, automated, repeatable, and scalable solutions.\nDeep understanding of container security and container registries such as ECR and ACR, including image lifecycle, vulnerability scanning, access controls, and supply chain security.\nStrong knowledge of cloud-native security architecture, including network security, secrets management, workload identity, policy enforcement, and runtime protection.\nExperience implementing security guardrails and automated controls that improve security while minimizing friction for developers.\nStrong infrastructure-as-code experience with technologies such as Terraform, Helm, GitOps, or similar tooling.\nProven ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems and lead technical response to high-impact security, infrastructure, and production incidents.\nExperience designing security observability capabilities across cloud and Kubernetes environments, including logging, metrics, detection, and actionable 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The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: level, function, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, geographic market, and often a combination of all these factors. Our benefits offer an array of options to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. To see more details on our benefits offerings please visit https://www.axon.com/careers.\nBase Pay Range\n$168,750—$270,000 USD\nAxon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: level, function, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, geographic market, and often a combination of all these factors. Our benefits offer an array of options to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. To see more details on our benefits offerings please visit https://www.axon.com/careers.\nBase Pay Range\n$194,062—$310,500 USD\nAxon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: level, function, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, geographic market, and often a combination of all these factors. Our benefits offer an array of options to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. To see more details on our benefits offerings please visit https://www.axon.com/careers.\nBase Pay Range\n$168,750—$270,000 USD\nAxon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. 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