Security Operations Engineer II

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 Security Operations Engineer II, you will be an engineer-first member of Axon's Security Operations Center, the team that monitors, investigates, and responds to security events across Axon's corporate, cloud, and regulated SaaS environments, which serve public safety agencies and enterprises around the world. You will respond to alerts, triage incidents, and participate in the on-call rotation, and use what you learn about day-to-day SOC operations to automate the repetitive work that slows response. You will build automation playbooks, tool integrations, and threat detections, and lead incidents from initial findings through root cause analysis and remediation, turning each one into better detections and playbooks. As automation takes over repeat work, more of your time goes to building the capabilities that let the SOC scale with Axon's growth.

Location: Onsite at our Scottsdale, AZ or Seattle, WA office

Reports to: Manager, Information Security Engineering

Direct Reports: None

• •Design, build, and operate security automation using version control, code review, testing, and CI/CD, including automation playbooks, chat-based workflows, and services that connect security tools.
• •Integrate security, identity, IT service management, and cloud platforms through their APIs, handling authentication and secrets securely.
• •Own the detection lifecycle: onboard new log sources, write and tune detections, find coverage gaps, and manage detections as code.
• •Deploy and maintain the cloud infrastructure behind security tooling using infrastructure-as-code and least-privilege design.
• •Build detections and automation that meet strict data-handling and compliance requirements.
• •Turn incident lessons into reusable playbooks, templates, and tooling that make response consistent across the team.
• •Evaluate new security tooling, including automation platforms and AI-assisted triage, for fit, security, and licensing, and take selected tools into production.
• •Measure team workload and the time automation saves, and report metrics that show where to invest next.
• •Partner with senior team members on platform design decisions while assisting more junior team members with scripting and automation.

• •2+ years of experience in security engineering, SOC or detection engineering, or software or infrastructure roles with a security focus.
• •Strong skills in python, shell scripting, git, and experience shipping and maintaining production code.
• •Hands-on incident response and alert triage experience, and comfort participating in an on-call rotation.
• •Experience with a SIEM, log analytics platform, or SOAR or workflow automation platform.
• •Working knowledge of cloud platforms, identity providers, endpoint detection and response (EDR), and REST APIs and authentication.
• •Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools.
• •Experience with Git-based collaborative development, including branching, pull requests, and code review.
• •Experience building and maintaining production CI/CD pipelines.
• •Understanding of the software development lifecycle and application design, with a habit of writing maintainable, tested code.
• •Familiarity with secure development practices such as dependency scanning, secrets scanning, and managing secrets in pipelines.
• •Clear written communication for runbooks, incident timelines, and audit evidence.
• •Must be able to pass a standard FBI background check for access to Criminal Justice Information Systems.

• •Competitive salary and 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
• •Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
• •And yes, we have snacks in our offices

Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work.