Graduate Site Reliability Engineer (Australia)

Overview

Axon, a company whose mission is to Protect Life through devices and cloud software for safety and justice, is hiring a Graduate Site Reliability Engineer in Australia. The role sits in the SRE organisation, which solves real-time problems for mission-critical, cloud-native services and aims for the high quality and reliability customers demand. The work is done remotely from anywhere in Australia, with offices listed in Melbourne and Sydney. The engineer works closely with the SRE division, and the technical deliverables reach the whole engineering organisation so product teams can keep shipping features.

What you will do

Responsibilities include helping build and maintain reliable, scalable and secure cloud platforms and tools, applying site reliability engineering principles to improve stability and performance, writing clean and efficient code, and troubleshooting and debugging issues in distributed cloud-native systems. The engineer also collaborates with engineering teams to support service reliability, creates documentation that improves self-service, takes part in on-call rotations and incident response, and grows with guidance from senior team members while contributing to knowledge sharing.

Requirements

Applicants need a Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering or a related field and about one year of experience in software engineering, SRE or infrastructure. An Australian government security clearance, or the ability to obtain one, which requires Australian citizenship, is mandatory. Other requirements include a solid understanding of operating systems, preferably Linux, experience with cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS and Kubernetes services such as AKS or EKS, and a programming language such as Python, Go, C# or Java. Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, observability tools, infrastructure as code concepts such as Terraform, exposure to AI development tools, strong problem-solving and good communication skills are also expected.

What you get

Benefits include a competitive salary, an annual bonus and restricted stock unit eligibility, paid time off, a monthly stipend for medical insurance, enhanced parental leave, wellbeing support and learning programmes.