Senior Software Engineer, Dedrone Infrastructure
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Requirements
• 3+ years of relevant experience in backend engineering, platform engineering, developer infrastructure, or cloud-native software roles, with strong hands-on technical depth. • Proven experience building and operating production backend services with ownership of APIs, service reliability, and scalability. • Strong programming skills in at least one backend language (e.g., Java, Go, Python), with solid software engineering fundamentals. • Experience designing and supporting distributed systems, with understanding of concurrency, networking fundamentals, failure modes, and scaling patterns. • Deep familiarity with modern cloud environments (AWS preferred), including services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, IAM, Lambda, and CloudWatch. • Infrastructure-as-Code proficiency using Terraform, AWS CDK, or similar tools. • Containerization experience with Docker and orchestration platforms such as ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes. • Experience implementing observability practices (metrics, logging, tracing) and using them to diagnose production issues and improve reliability. • Strong Linux and scripting skills (Bash or similar) for automation and debugging. • A track record of improving developer velocity by eliminating bottlenecks and reducing operational toil. • Work Location: This role is based out of our London 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. • 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 reflect the communities we serve. • Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every box in the job description. If you’re excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification listed here, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. • Important Notes • 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 [email protected] or via our Axon Privacy Web Form. For more information, please see the Your California Privacy Rights section of our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice. • [email protected] • Axon’s mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being and safety of its employees as well as Axon’s impact on the environment. All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental, health, and safety regulations, policies, and procedures. Axon employees are empowered to report safety concerns as they arise and activities potentially impacting the environment.
Responsibilities
• Location: Onsite at our London, UK office 4 days a weekReports to: Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Services • Location: • Reports to: • Backend & Platform Service Engineering • Design, build, and maintain production-grade backend services (primarily Java, Go, or Python) that power deployment orchestration, internal APIs, and developer platform capabilities. • Contribute to architectural decisions including service boundaries, API design, persistence layers, scalability strategies, and fault tolerance. • Improve performance, reliability, and maintainability of platform-owned services through strong testing practices and thoughtful system design. • Maintain and evolve shared services owned by the Infrastructure Services team. • CI/CD & Developer Platform • Own, design, and optimize CI/CD systems supporting Dedrone’s distributed product ecosystem—reducing build times, deployment friction, and manual overhead. • Implement safe, automated deployment strategies (e.g., blue/green, canary, rollback automation) to increase deployment confidence. • Provide reusable templates, pipeline patterns, and tooling that improve self-service capabilities for product teams. • Cloud Infrastructure & Automation • Design and maintain scalable, secure AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or AWS CDK). • Architect and optimize Docker images and container workflows; support orchestration platforms such as ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes. • Improve environment consistency, drift detection, and infrastructure reliability across staging and production systems. • Observability, Reliability & Security • Strengthen Dedrone’s observability stack—metrics, logging, tracing, alerting—leveraging tools such as Grafana and CloudWatch. • Use telemetry and SLO-driven insights to diagnose issues and proactively improve system reliability. • Contribute to security-focused improvements across CI/CD, IAM, secrets management, and cloud resource hardening. • Engineering Standards & Collaboration • Establish and promote high standards in service design, code quality, infrastructure patterns, and automation practices. • Partner closely with product engineering teams to reduce operational toil and increase developer velocity. • Collaborate with Axon platform, infrastructure, and security teams to align on shared best practices.
Benefits
• Competitive base salary and RSUs • Comprehensive pension plan with matching contribution • Private health insurance & cash plans • 30 days paid holiday + UK public holidays • Enhanced maternity/paternity leave • GymPass subscription • Life assurance & income protection • Career growth support and wellness resources • Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work • 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 reflect the communities we serve. • Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every box in the job description. If you’re excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification listed here, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. • Important Notes • 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 [email protected] or via our Axon Privacy Web Form. For more information, please see the Your California Privacy Rights section of our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice. • [email protected] • Axon’s mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being and safety of its employees as well as Axon’s impact on the environment. All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental, health, and safety regulations, policies, and procedures. Axon employees are empowered to report safety concerns as they arise and activities potentially impacting the environment.
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