Site Reliability Engineer II at Axon
Washington
$115,500–$164,800
Jul 21, 2026
Washington
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A software-heavy SRE role focused on building and maintaining an internal automation platform that eliminates manual cloud operations work. Day-to-day involves writing Go services and Temporal workflows, developing APIs, and owning production systems through on-call rotations and incident response. Suited to engineers comfortable straddling software development and cloud infrastructure, with experience in Kubernetes, CI/CD, IaC, and observability tooling. Handling of classified federal data means the role is open to U.S. citizens only.
Senior level · 5+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Full-time
Pay in the description: $115,500–$164,800
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,100 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 570–1,400
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,959 (middle half $135,720–$216,519). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The role is titled without a seniority level ('SRE CloudOps engineer'), but the 5+ years requirement and scope of ownership (on-call, incident leadership, SLOs, platform-building) clearly support a Senior band.
The posting states this role is open to U.S. citizens only due to handling of classified federal data, but does not require a specific security clearance to be held or obtained — no clearance gate is set.
The role is based in Seattle or Boston offices on a hybrid schedule (onsite Tue–Fri); it is not fully remote. The CBSA reflects the Seattle location as the first-listed; Boston (CBSA 14460) is an equally valid work location.
The primary day-to-day work is writing Go services and Temporal workflows (software development), which drives the Software Developers classification. The SRE/CloudOps framing and on-call/operations duties introduce some ambiguity with 15-1244, hence Medium confidence.
Go is listed as the primary language for the Zero Touch Platform; Python, C#, and Java appear as alternatives under the 'managed languages' requirement.
AKS and EKS appear as named examples of Kubernetes platforms in the requirements section; they are listed as preferred since the gate is on Kubernetes broadly, with AKS/EKS as illustrative examples.
Observability tools (APM, logging, metrics) are listed together as a single requirement; APM is used as the primary name with the understanding that logging and metrics tooling are part of the same gate.
Temporal is the workflow orchestration engine central to the team's platform but appears in the role description/context rather than the formal requirements list — marked as preferred accordingly.
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