Principal Security Operations Engineer at Axon

Department: 4901 Information SecurityEducation: education_required

Compensation

$168,750 – $270,000/yr

Location: Atlanta, Georgia · Boston, Massachusetts · +3
Type: Full-time
Level: staff+
Posted: Aug 13, 2026

Description

Axon is hiring a Principal Security Operations Engineer to lead secure, reliable, and developer-friendly cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure. The role focuses on Kubernetes platform architecture, AWS and Azure infrastructure, CI/CD security guardrails, vulnerability management, security observability, incident response, automation, and mentoring engineers. It is available in Seattle, Scottsdale, Boston, Atlanta, and San Francisco, requires 10+ years of relevant experience, and offers a base-pay range of $168,750 to $270,000 USD.

Required Skills

Kubernetes
AWS
Azure
Infrastructure as Code
CI/CD
Go
Python
PKI
Security Observability

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 10+ years of experience in security engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure, SRE, or related roles with technical leadership across large-scale environments
Expert-level Kubernetes experience operating production environments at scale
Deep AWS and/or Azure expertise with infrastructure-as-code
Software engineering and automation experience with Go, Python, or similar languages
Extensive CI/CD and application deployment architecture experience
Container security and registry experience
Cloud-native security architecture experience
Security guardrails and automated controls experience
Infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform, Helm, or GitOps
Distributed systems troubleshooting and incident response experience
Security observability design experience
Technical leadership across organizational boundaries
Mentoring senior engineers and establishing engineering standards
United States citizenship
Preferred Qualifications: PKI, certificate management, or machine identity experience at scale
Translation Company Name: Axon