Listing Description

Your Impact 

You are excited about the care, feeding, and growth of high-availability, scalable, cloud-based systems with a strong focus on security. You will respond to and investigate escalated security incidents. You will help to create and implement sophisticated monitoring and detection techniques. We need a high-energy security professional to help expand and mature our security operations. There are plenty of challenges to conquer that requires a range of security knowledge, experience, and passion.

What You’ll Do 

Location: Work from home as much as you want, live nearby any of our awesome US R&D Hubs (Seattle, Scottsdale, Atlanta, San Francisco, or Boston) so you can easily collab in-person when it’s helpful and be an active part of our vibrant Axon culture.
Reports to: Security Operations Center Manager
Direct Reports: 0 

• Design, develop, implement, and maintain automated tooling to improve Axon’s ability to detect and respond to security events


• Participate in an on-call rotation to investigate and remediate escalated security events, serving as a final point of escalation for complex issues beyond routine alerts.


• Evaluate and integrate new security tools and technologies into the SOC


• Set a high technical bar for the team


• Mentor more junior team members


• Partner with teams throughout the company to help design and build scalable solutions that improve Axon’s security posture.


• Engineer and implement automated solutions to address current security attack methods and detection techniques.


• Be the lead climber for complex tasks and projects


• Follow best practices for software development, including version control, testing, continuous integration and deployment, and documentation.


• Provide input to the overall Information Security Program for enhancing the information security strategy when necessary.


• Stay current on security industry trends, attack techniques, mitigation techniques, and security technologies by attending conferences, networking with peers, and other educational opportunities.

What You Bring

• 5-7 years of relevant experience. Bachelor’s degree or higher, or equivalent experience.


• A fundamental understanding of how modern, distributed cloud-based applications function


• Fluency in development languages like Python or Golang, and shell scripting (bash/powershell)


• Deep familiarity with Git and collaborative workflows like GitHub or GitLab.


• Demonstrated experience in security best practices, or an interest in building and expanding that knowledge


• Experience responding to and investigating information security events and incidents 


• Experience working with cloud-based APIs and infrastructure


• Strong problem solving skills, including the ability to analyze complex information to discover root cause.


• Strong written and verbal communication skills.


• Must be able to pass a standard FBI background check for access to Criminal Justice Information Systems

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.