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Sr. Site Reliability Engineer I
Axon Enterprise INC · 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 117 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 19 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Axon Enterprise INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles7 certified filings for “Software Engineer I” (Software Developers) in MA: $130k–$160k, median $142k. Most were filed at wage level I (57%) — 1 lottery entry, ≈15% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 117 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 19 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Join Axon and be a Force for Good. At Axon, we’re on a mission to Protect Life. We’re explorers, pursuing society’s most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products, we work better together. We connect with candor and care, seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers, communities and each other. Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you’ll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter. Your Impact As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer within the APX SRE organization, you’ll focus on delivering practical, scalable solutions to support the reliability and performance of our mission-critical, cloud-native global Kubernetes platform and the services that run on it. You care deeply about system stability, clear documentation, and creating tools that improve the developer experience. Location: This role is based out of our Boston office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in-person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation. We believe that connection fuels innovation, and our in-office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success. What You’ll Do As an SRE, you’ll play a critical role in building the infrastructure and tools that power reliable, scalable, and secure engineering operations across the company. You will: • Build robust, easy-to-use kubernetes platforms and tools that enable engineering teams to provision and operate services rapidly, consistently, and securely. • Exemplify cloud-native site reliability best practices. • Write code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise. • Employ strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to debug problems in cloud-native distributed systems. • Employ technical project management skills, with the ability to properly scope, plan, and define work to meet deadlines. • Influence and educate the engineering organization to adopt new and improved architectural patterns. • Provide robust documentation for use by engineers to promote self-service. • Continually seek improvement within the entire platform org for improved reliability, operability, and cost efficiency • Take calculated risks, champion new ideas, and cultivate your craft. What You Bring • 5+ years of applicable experience in Platform engineering, and container orchestration • United States Citizen — able to gain CJIS clearance for full US production access • Experience building platforms on either Azure or AWS (preferably both) • Building, operating, and innovating clustering solutions for Kubernetes platforms like AKS, EKS, or similar in production at scale • Experience with programming languages such as Python, Go, C#, Java, and others. • Building, operating, and managing infrastructure and systems that are highly revenue, security, and/or health and life-safety critical. • Experience utilizing CI/CD platforms to automate provisioning infrastructure, software builds, tests, and releases. • Experience using observability tools such as APM, logging, and metrics to assist with debugging issues. • Experience using Infrastructure as Code tools for provisioning flexible and testible modules such as Terraform, Pulumi, or similar. • Experience designing tooling to simplify the operational management of SaaS/PaaS systems. • Empathy to support the needs of software engineers. Benefits that Benefit You • Competitive salary and 401k with employer match • Discretionary time off • Paid parental leave for all • Medical, Dental, Vision plans • Fitnes