Senior Software Engineer II (Entity Graph)

Join Axon and be a Force for Good.

At Axon were on a mission to Protect Life. Were explorers pursuing societys 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 youll 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

The Entity Graph team builds the core knowledge graph and services that connect people places events cases and their relationships across Axons ecosystem. We enable unified trustworthy views of incidents evidence and workflows used daily by officers investigators and analysts.

As a Senior Software Engineer II on the Entity Graph team you will lead the architecture implementation and operation of services that model and query real-world entities at scale. Youll drive complex cross-team initiatives set technical direction mentor engineers and raise the bar for system design and reliability.

This is a high-ownership high-leverage role. Your teams work is central to the products data architecture and your decisions will have direct impact on our customers and public safety work in an exciting mission-driven environment where you use your passion experience and analytical skills to help scale solutions for public safety and leave a positive impact on the world.

What Youll Do

Work Location: This role is based out of our Seattle 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.
Reports to: Senior Engineering Manager
Direct Reports: None

What Youll Do

• Design and implement scalable services for entity modeling ingestion indexing and query.
• Define and evolve data and schema models for interconnected records.
• Lead end-to-end projects: architecture implementation and delivery.
• Collaborate with product and data partners to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Improve service reliability testing and observability.
• Mentor peers and contribute to engineering best practices.

What You Bring

• Strong backend engineering experience (typically 8 years) with proven technical leadership.
• Proficiency in one or more modern languages (e.g. Java/Kotlin C# Go or similar) and cloud-native service development.
• Experience designing data models for complex interrelated domains and working with relational and NoSQL/graph stores.
• Solid systems design skills for distributed high-throughput services.
• Clear communicator who collaborates effectively across teams.
• Security- and privacy-conscious mindset.

Nice to Have

• Experience with knowledge graphs entity resolution or graph databases.
• Familiarity with streaming systems (Kafka Kinesis Pub/Sub) and observability tools.

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

Pay Transparency

The Pay: Axon is a total compensation company meaning compensation is made up of base pay bonus and stock awards. The starting base pay for this role is between USD 141000 in the lowest geographic market and USD 225600 in the highest geographic market. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors such as: level function training transferable skills work experience business needs geographic market and often a combination of all these factors. Our benefits offer an array of options to help support you physically financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. To see more details on our benefits offerings please visit meet every single requirement Thats ok. At Axon we Aim Far. We think big with a long-term view because we want to reinvent the world to be a safer better place. We are also committed to building diverse teams that reflect the communities we serve.

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every box in the job description. If youre excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesnt align perfectly with every qualification listed here we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Important Notes

The above job description is not intended as nor should it be construed as exhaustive of all duties responsibilities skills efforts or working conditions associated with this job. The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.

Some roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.

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Axons mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being and safety of its employees as well as Axons impact on the environment. All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental health and safety regulations policies and procedures. Axon employees are empowered to report safety concerns as they arise and activities potentially impacting the environment.

We are an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice advances equity values diversity and fosters inclusion. Were committed to hiring the best talent regardless of race creed color ancestry religion sex (including pregnancy) national origin sexual orientation age citizenship status marital status disability gender identity genetic information veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws regulations and ordinances and empowering all of our employees so they can do their best work. If you have a disability or special need that requires assistance or accommodation during the application or the recruiting process please email Please note that this email address is for accommodation purposes only. Axon will not respond to inquiries for other purposes.