Senior Software Engineer, Dedrone Infrastructure in London

Join Axon and be a Force for Good. At Axon, we're on a mission to Protect Life. We explore society's most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you'll take ownership and drive real change.

Your Impact

As a Senior Platform Engineer on Dedrone's Infrastructure Services team, you will accelerate product development by building and maintaining the core infrastructure, tooling, and automation systems that engineering teams rely on. You will shape the CI/CD ecosystem, strengthen observability platforms, and deliver scalable, secure cloud infrastructure.

This role enables deep technical ownership and provides significant opportunities to influence engineering standards, developer experience, and future platform architecture across the product teams.

What You'll Do

• Own, design, and optimize CI/CD pipelines supporting Dedrone's distributed, product ecosystem—reducing build times, deployment friction, and manual overhead.
• Build, automate, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or AWS CDK), ensuring scalable, secure, and reusable cloud environments.
• Maintain and evolve backend services owned by the team.
• Architect, optimize, and secure Docker images and container workflows; support orchestration environments (such as ECS, EKS, Kubernetes).
• Strengthen and expand Dedrone's observability stack—metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting—leveraging tools such as Grafana, Cloudwatch.
• Establish and promote engineering best practices across development standards, CI/CD patterns, infrastructure templates, and reusable tooling.
• Partner closely with product engineering teams to understand bottlenecks, reduce toil, and increase overall developer velocity.
• Contribute to security-focused improvements across the platform CI/CD, IAM, secrets management, and cloud resource hardening.
• Collaborate with Axon platform, infrastructure, and security teams to align workflows and adopt shared best practices.
• Deliver measurable improvements to system reliability, automation, and infrastructure scalability.

What You Bring

• 3+ years of relevant experience in cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, backend engineering, or platform/DevOps roles, with an emphasis on practical, hands‐on expertise over formal education.
• Proficiency with modern cloud and automation tooling, including CI/CD pipeline development, AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or AWS CDK), and containerization using Docker and orchestration tools such as ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes.
• Strong engineering fundamentals, including backend development experience (e.g., Java, Go, Python), as well as Linux, Bash, and scripting skills used for automation, debugging, and improving developer workflows.
• Experience implementing observability practices—including metrics, logging, and tracing—and using insights to diagnose issues, improve reliability, and elevate developer experience across systems.
• A collaborative approach grounded in Axon's values—showing ownership, candor, customer success, the courage to boldly go, and the ambition to aim far and win right.

Work Location

This role is based out of our London, UK office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in‐person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesday through Friday, with flexibility to work remotely on Mondays unless there is an approved workplace accommodation.

Benefits that Benefit You

• 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
• Life assurance & income protection
• Career growth support and wellness resources

We are an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice, advances equity, values diversity and fosters inclusion. We're committed to hiring the best talent — regardless of race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.