Software Engineer II, Cloud Engineering

Join Axon and be a Force for Good. 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. 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. Your Impact We’re seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and maintain the AWS-based backbone of our drone detection and analytics platform. You’ll enable our analysts and agents to deliver actionable insights at scale, ensuring our data pipelines, alerting systems, and compute environments are secure, reliable, and efficient. You’ll work closely with the Decisions and Insights team to operationalize data workflows and automate alerting, applying best practices in DevOps and cloud-native architecture. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on systems that directly support Dedrone’s global airspace security mission. What You’ll Do Design, deploy, and manage AWS infrastructure (S3, EC2, Lambda, Fargate, SNS, CloudWatch, IAM, Code Pipelines etc). Build and maintain data ingestion and processing pipel [... source excerpt omitted ...] s and services. Collaborate with DA/DE/DS to operationalize workflows in a cloud-native, automated fashion. What You Bring 4+ years of experience managing AWS infrastructure in production environments. Experience with CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation for infrastructure as code is a must. Strong experience with Lambda, Fargate, S3, SNS/SQS, EC2, and CloudWatch. Hands-on experience with Docker and CI/CD tools. Solid understanding of Python-based data workflows and microservice design patterns. Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with a focus on reliability and automation. Work Location This role is based out of our Sterling, VA Office and follows a hybrid s [... source excerpt omitted ...] u may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. Important Notes The 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. Some roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment. We collect personal information from applicants to evaluate candidates for employment. You may request access, deletion, or exercise other CCPA rights at axongreenhousesupport@axon.com or via our Axon Privacy Web Form. For more informa