Sr. Site Reliability Engineer I at Axon
Boston, MA
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Jul 23, 2026
Boston, MA
Jul 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior SRE role focused on building and maintaining a cloud-native Kubernetes platform (on Azure and/or AWS) and the tooling that lets engineering teams deploy and operate services reliably at scale. Day-to-day work spans cluster management, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD automation, observability, and developer-facing documentation. Suited to engineers with substantial platform or container-orchestration experience who are comfortable writing production code alongside operational work.
Senior level · 5+ years · Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 300 people in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 120–450
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $169,742 (middle half $134,780–$187,781).
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 (5)
The role is hybrid (not fully remote) — onsite Tuesday through Friday at the Boston office, with Monday remote.
Azure and AWS are listed together as a requirement ('either Azure or AWS, preferably both'); Azure is captured as the primary with AWS as an alternative, but AWS is also surfaced separately as preferred given the 'preferably both' framing.
Programming languages (Python, Go, C#, Java) are presented as a group with 'such as' — Python is the primary with the others as alternatives; Go is also surfaced separately as preferred given its prominence in SRE/platform engineering contexts.
The SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role emphasizes writing code and building platforms (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also has a strong infrastructure operations and reliability dimension that could support 15-1244; the code-building emphasis tips the classification to 15-1252.
No compensation figures were provided in the posting.
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