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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.\nYour Impact\nAs a Security Operations Engineer II, you will be an engineer-first member of Axon's Security Operations Center, the team that monitors, investigates, and responds to security events across Axon's corporate, cloud, and regulated SaaS environments, which serve public safety agencies and enterprises around the world. You will respond to alerts, triage incidents, and participate in the on-call rotation, and use what you learn about day-to-day SOC operations to automate the repetitive work that slows response. You will build automation playbooks, tool integrations, and threat detections, and lead incidents from initial findings through root cause analysis and remediation, turning each one into better detections and playbooks. As automation takes over repeat work, more of your time goes to building the capabilities that let the SOC scale with Axon's growth.\nLocation: Onsite at our Scottsdale, AZ or Seattle, WA office\nReports to: Manager, Information Security Engineering\nDirect Reports: None\nYour Day-to-Day:\nInvestigate and respond to security alerts, security tickets, and user-reported phishing as part of the team's shared queue rotation.\nParticipate in the on-call rotation, investigating, containing, and coordinating escalated security events such as exposed credentials, data spillage, suspicious account activity, and cloud account compromise.\nOwn incidents through to closure: timeline, root cause, remediation tracking, and a detection or playbook update so the same issue is caught faster next time.\nIdentify repetitive, manual work and replace it with automation, such as phishing triage and enrichment, offboarding verification, vulnerability remediation tracking, and bulk ticket handling.\nWrite, tune, and document detections against security logs, retire noisy alerts, and write a runbook for every alert you ship.\nSupport identity and access operations, including offboarding, access requests, and access reviews, and automate the checks that keep them reliable.\nProduce audit and compliance evidence, and automate its collection wherever possible.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nDesign, build, and operate security automation using version control, code review, testing, and CI/CD, including automation playbooks, chat-based workflows, and services that connect security tools.\nIntegrate security, identity, IT service management, and cloud platforms through their APIs, handling authentication and secrets securely.\nOwn the detection lifecycle: onboard new log sources, write and tune detections, find coverage gaps, and manage detections as code.\nDeploy and maintain the cloud infrastructure behind security tooling using infrastructure-as-code and least-privilege design.\nBuild detections and automation that meet strict data-handling and compliance requirements.\nTurn incident lessons into reusable playbooks, templates, and tooling that make response consistent across the team.\nEvaluate new security tooling, including automation platforms and AI-assisted triage, for fit, security, and licensing, and take selected tools into production.\nMeasure team workload and the time automation saves, and report metrics that show where to invest next.\nPartner with senior team members on platform design decisions while assisting more junior team members with scripting and automation.\nWhat You Bring:\n2+ years of experience in security engineering, SOC or detection engineering, or software or infrastructure roles with a security focus.\nStrong skills in python, shell scripting, git, and experience shipping and maintaining production code.\nHands-on incident response and alert triage experience, and comfort participating in an on-call rotation.\nExperience with a SIEM, log analytics platform, or SOAR or workflow automation platform.\nWorking knowledge of cloud platforms, identity providers, endpoint detection and response (EDR), and REST APIs and authentication.\nExperience with infrastructure-as-code tools.\nExperience with Git-based collaborative development, including branching, pull requests, and code review.\nExperience building and maintaining production CI/CD pipelines.\nUnderstanding of the software development lifecycle and application design, with a habit of writing maintainable, tested code.\nFamiliarity with secure development practices such as dependency scanning, secrets scanning, and managing secrets in pipelines.\nClear written communication for runbooks, incident timelines, and audit evidence.\nMust be able to pass a standard FBI background check for access to Criminal Justice Information Systems.\nBenefits that Benefit You\nCompetitive salary and 401k with employer match\nDiscretionary paid time off\nPaid parental leave for all\nMedical, Dental, Vision plans\nFitness Programs\nEmotional & Mental Wellness support\nLearning & Development programs\nEmployee Resource Groups (ERGs)\nAnd yes, we have snacks in our offices\nBenefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work.\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.\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$96,000—$153,600 USD\nDon’t meet every single requirement? That's 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.\nStudies 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 you’re excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesn’t 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.\nImportant Notes\nThe 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.\nSome roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.\nWe collect personal information from applicants to evaluate candidates for employment. You may request access, deletion, or exercise other CCPA rights at  or via our Axon Privacy Web Form. For more information, please see the Your California Privacy Rights section of our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.\nAxon’s mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being and safety of its employees as well as Axon’s 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.\nWe are an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice, advances equity, values diversity and fosters inclusion. We’re committed to hiring the best talent - regardless of race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances - and empowering all of our employees so they can do their best work. If you have a disability or special need that requires assistance or accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email . Please note that this email address is for accommodation purposes only. Axon will not respond to inquiries for other purposes.\nPhishing alert: Axon will never ask you to pay for any part of the hiring process, including training, equipment, or background checks. We do not make job offers via text message, WhatsApp, or instant messaging platforms without a formal interview process. All legitimate job openings are listed on our official careers page at https://www.axon.com/careers. 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