Senior Infrastructure Engineer

About Us Founded in 2021, Axion is at the forefront of transforming product quality and customer satisfaction in manufacturing. Our cutting-edge AI-powered platform empowers manufacturers to swiftly identify, thoroughly investigate, and effectively resolve quality issues while simultaneously elevating customer experiences and outcomes. As trailblazers in end-to-end quality intelligence, we're setting new industry standards. Our innovative approach enables industrial, aerospace, consumer, and medtech manufacturers to harness the power of quality and post-market data, driving down costs and boosting business performance. Our vision extends beyond mere problem-solving; we're committed to reshaping the future of manufacturing. By seamlessly integrating advanced AI technology with deep industry expertise, Axion is paving the way for smarter, safer, and more efficient production processes across diverse sectors. Backed by leading investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Amplo, Boeing, and RTX Ventures, Axion is poised to lead the quality revolution in manufacturing. About the Role: We're seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to play a key role in shaping and scaling our cloud infrastructure. You'll be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automating deployment workflows, ensuring system reliability and security, and supporting rapid development cycles. This is a hands-on role ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, high-impact environment and is excited to build foundational DevOps systems from the ground up. You'll work closely with engineering leadership to drive infrastructure decisions and enable product teams to ship faster with confidence. This person should reside in EST or CST locations. Key Responsibilities - Design, build, and maintain Axion's cloud infrastructure on GCP, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security - Own and evolve our Kubernetes-based container orchestration platform and Terraform infrastructure-as-code practices - Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and deployment automation to help engineering teams ship with speed and confidence - Establish and maintain observability across our stack — logging, metrics, alerting, and tracing — and lead incident response efforts - Define and track SLOs and SLIs, driving a culture of reliability and continuous improvement - Contribute to security hardening, compliance posture, and cost optimization across our cloud environment Requirements - 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering - Deep hands-on experience with GCP (Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, or similar services) - Strong proficiency with Kubernetes — cluster management, networking, scaling, and troubleshooting - Solid Terraform experience — writing modular, reusable, production-grade infrastructure-as-code - Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling - Strong background in observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent) - Comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with a bias toward action - Experience at a venture-backed startup preferred - Must be based in the Eastern or Central time zones Nice to Haves: - Experience using agents to accelerate delivery - Experience managing infrastructure for FedRAMP environments Who You Are: You’re a builder and operator who thrives in fast-moving, high-accountability environments. You take pride in getting things done — thoughtfully, efficiently, and without drama. You’re energized by ambiguity, skilled at bringing clarity, and comfortable flexing between strategy and execution. You value feedback — giving it, receiving it, and acting on it — and you see collaboration as a competitive advantage, not a burden. You’re low-ego but high-agency: you care about winning as a team more than being right individually. You move quickly, communicate directly, and make decisions grounded in impact and data. You