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 pipelines, ensuring reliability and scalability. Set up and monitor notification and alerting systems for data processing and model operations. Manage Dockerized workloads across Fargate and EC2 for compute-heavy analytics jobs. Support CI/CD pipelines for model deployment and internal tools. Optimize cost, performance, and security posture across AWS accounts 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 schedule. We rely on in-person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation. We believe that connection fuels innovation, and our in-office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success. Benefits that Benefit You Competitive salary and 401k with employer match Discretionary paid time off Paid parental leave for all Medical, Dental, Vision plans Fitness Programs Emotional & Mental Wellness support Learning & Development programs And yes, we have snacks in our offices Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work Axon 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 . Base Pay Range $120,750 — $193,200 USD Don’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 re