Principal Security Operations Engineer
Axon
Commercial Weapons and their Ammunition
San Francisco, CA - United States
Senior Specialist / Project Manager
Experteer Overview
In this role, you will lead the secure, scalable cloud-native infrastructure enabling fast product delivery without compromising security. You’ll drive automation, tooling, and security controls across Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud platforms, partnering with engineering and platform teams to reduce friction while elevating security. The position centers on designing secure delivery pipelines and observability for mission-critical systems that support Axon’s life-protecting mission. You’ll provide technical leadership during incidents and shape security standards across teams.
Compensation / Benefits
- Competitive salary and 401K with employer match
- Discretionary paid time off
- Robust parental leave policy
- Award-winning office/working environment
- Ride along with real police officers in real life situations
- And more...
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and improvement of Axon’s Kubernetes platforms with platform teams to enhance security, resilience, and operations.
- Evolve security application delivery by refactoring services, establishing automated controls and guardrails in CI/CD pipelines.
- Provision and secure AWS and Azure infrastructure using IaC and cloud-native practices.
- Collaborate with developers, SRE, and platform teams to embed security by design into infrastructure and workflows.
- Provide deep technical leadership during security and infrastructure incidents, driving root cause analysis and durable remediation.
- Advance security observability through telemetry, logging, metrics, detection, and actionable alerting.
- Build internal security tooling, runbooks, and self-service capabilities to reduce operational toil.
- Set technical standards for operating security platforms at scale and mentor engineers across teams.
- Apply PKI/certificate management expertise where applicable to strengthen security architecture.
Key requirements
- 10+ years in security engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure, SRE, or related roles with demonstrated technical leadership.
- Expert Kubernetes experience with hands-on knowledge of cluster architecture, security, and production operations at scale.
- Strong AWS and/or Azure experience with IaC-based provisioning, security, and operations.
- Proficient in software engineering and automation (Go, Python or similar) and building internal platforms and tooling.
- Deep experience optimizing CI/CD architectures, secure deployment patterns, and automation.
- Solid understanding of container security, registries (ECR/ACR), image lifecycle, and supply chain security.
- Knowledge of cloud-native security (networking, secrets, workload identity, runtime protection).
- Experience implementing security guardrails that reduce developer friction while securing systems.
- Infrastructure-as-code expertise (Terraform, Helm, GitOps).
- Proven ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems and lead high-impact incidents.
- Strong communication to translate complex security challenges into actionable plans.
- US Citizenship.
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