Senior Software Engineer, Dedrone Infrastructure

As a Senior Software Engineer on Dedrone’s Infrastructure Services team, you will design, build, and evolve the core systems that power both our developer platform and key backend services. You will combine strong software engineering fundamentals with deep infrastructure expertise to ensure our platform is scalable, reliable, and secure. This role goes beyond operating infrastructure—you will build production-grade backend services, design cloud-native systems, and own the CI/CD and runtime environments that support our product ecosystem. You will influence engineering standards, developer experience, and architectural direction across Dedrone’s product teams.

What You’ll Do

Location: Onsite at our London, UK office 4 days a week
Reports to: Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Services

Backend & Platform Service Engineering

• Design, build, and maintain production-grade backend services (primarily Java, Go, or Python) that power deployment orchestration, internal APIs, and developer platform capabilities.
• Contribute to architectural decisions including service boundaries, API design, persistence layers, scalability strategies, and fault tolerance.
• Improve performance, reliability, and maintainability of platform-owned services through strong testing practices and thoughtful system design.
• Maintain and evolve shared services owned by the Infrastructure Services team.

CI/CD & Developer Platform

• Own, design, and optimize CI/CD systems supporting Dedrone’s distributed product ecosystem—reducing build times, deployment friction, and manual overhead.
• Implement safe, automated deployment strategies (e.g., blue/green, canary, rollback automation) to increase deployment confidence.
• Provide reusable templates, pipeline patterns, and tooling that improve self-service capabilities for product teams.

Cloud Infrastructure & Automation

• Design and maintain scalable, secure AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or AWS CDK).
• Architect and optimize Docker images and container workflows; support orchestration platforms such as ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes.
• Improve environment consistency, drift detection, and infrastructure reliability across staging and production systems.

Observability, Reliability & Security

• Strengthen Dedrone’s observability stack—metrics, logging, tracing, alerting—leveraging tools such as Grafana and CloudWatch.
• Use telemetry and SLO-driven insights to diagnose issues and proactively improve system reliability.
• Contribute to security-focused improvements across CI/CD, IAM, secrets management, and cloud resource hardening.

Engineering Standards & Collaboration

• Establish and promote high standards in service design, code quality, infrastructure patterns, and automation practices.
• Partner closely with product engineering teams to reduce operational toil and increase developer velocity.
• Collaborate with Axon platform, infrastructure, and security teams to align on shared best practices.

What You Bring

• Relevant experience in backend engineering, platform engineering, developer infrastructure, or cloud-native software roles, with strong hands-on technical depth.
• Proven experience building and operating production backend services with ownership of APIs, service reliability, and scalability.
• Strong programming skills in at least one backend language (e.g., Java, Go, Python), with solid software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience designing and supporting distributed systems, with understanding of concurr