Job Description
Axon is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join their team and contribute to their mission of protecting life. This role involves the care, feeding, and growth of high-availability, scalable, cloud-based systems with a strong focus on security. The Senior Security Engineer will respond to and investigate escalated security incidents, create and implement sophisticated monitoring and detection techniques, and help expand and mature Axon's security operations.
Responsibilities:
- 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
- Evaluate and integrate new security tools and technologies into the SOC
- 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
- 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
Requirements:
- 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
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Must be able to pass a standard FBI background check for access to Criminal Justice Information Systems
Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- 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