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
You are a Staff Software Engineer who thrives at the intersection of technical leadership rapid product discovery and customer obsession. On Enterprise youll help Axon identify and prove new product-market fit by building high-leverage proof-of-concepts with real customer workflows then laying the technical foundation to evolve the best concepts into secure scalable production-ready products across the Axon ecosystem. You bring strong system design judgment and an outcomes-first mindset: you know when to move fast with a prototype how to design experiments that de-risk big bets and how to translate learnings into durable architectures teams can build on.
Youre a force multiplierraising the technical bar through design reviews mentoring and cross-team alignmentand you partner deeply with Product Management and customer development partners to ensure we build the right thing the right way. You foster a friendly open introspective culture that encourages everyone to speak their mind and avoid red tape unnecessary rituals bureaucracy and politics. You embody our company value of Join Forces and have zero tolerance for people not willing to collaborate.
Come help build the next generation of enterprise capabilities that extend Axons ecosystem and deliver meaningful impact for public safety.
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 Software Engineering Manager
- Lead technical discovery for new enterprise product concepts: translate ambiguous customer problems into shippable prototypes and measurable experiments
- Build proofs-of-concept that integrate with and build on top of the Axon ecosystem (platform services identity/access data workflows integrations hardware)
- Partner closely with Product Management Design and customer development partners to validate value usability and feasibility
- Establish architectural direction for concepts that graduate from POC to productdefining target-state designs key technical decisions and migration paths
- Set a high bar for security reliability privacy performance and maintainability appropriate for mission-critical enterprise environments
- Drive cross-team technical alignment: influence APIs platform capabilities data contracts observability standards and operational readiness
- Mentor engineers and model strong engineering practices (design docs iterative delivery pragmatic testing incident learnings and effective reviews)
What You Bring
- 10 years of professional software engineering experience
- A bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field (or equivalent)
- Proven ability to lead technical efforts across teamsaligning stakeholders driving architecture decisions and delivering outcomes
- Strong system design skills: you can design for scale availability operability and securityand explain tradeoffs clearly
- Experience building high-availability scalable cloud-based systems (microservices/event-driven systems)
- Experience integrating with external software systems
- Strong collaboration skills with Product and Design; comfortable working from ambiguous requirements and iterating quickly with customer feedback
- A track record of improving engineering effectiveness through mentorship technical standards and pragmatic process improvements
Nice to Have
- Experience building enterprise B2B products especially in regulated / high-trust environments (security compliance privacy auditability)
- Experience with identity authentication/authorization multi-tenant architectures and customer-managed configurations
- Experience with data platforms (streaming analytics search) integrations or workflow automation
- Experience with architecting workflows that span devices and cloud (firmware edge components secure networking ingestion/streaming and cloud orchestration)
- Hands-on expertise in observability reliability engineering and operational excellence (SLOs on-call readiness incident response)
Benefits that Benefit You
- Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
- Discretionary time off
- Paid parental leave for all
- Medical Dental Vision plans
- Fitness Programs
- Emotional & Development Programs
- 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. **
Axon is a total compensation company meaning compensation is made up of base pay bonus and stock awards. 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 Pay Range
$168750 - $270000 USD
Dont 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.
We collect personal information from applicants to evaluate candidates for employment. You may request access deletion or exercise other CCPA rights ator via ourAxon Privacy Web Form. For more information please see the Your California Privacy Rights section of ourApplicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.
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.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
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 persp...
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
You are a Staff Software Engineer who thrives at the intersection of technical leadership rapid product discovery and customer obsession. On Enterprise youll help Axon identify and prove new product-market fit by building high-leverage proof-of-concepts with real customer workflows then laying the technical foundation to evolve the best concepts into secure scalable production-ready products across the Axon ecosystem. You bring strong system design judgment and an outcomes-first mindset: you know when to move fast with a prototype how to design experiments that de-risk big bets and how to translate learnings into durable architectures teams can build on.
Youre a force multiplierraising the technical bar through design reviews mentoring and cross-team alignmentand you partner deeply with Product Management and customer development partners to ensure we build the right thing the right way. You foster a friendly open introspective culture that encourages everyone to speak their mind and avoid red tape unnecessary rituals bureaucracy and politics. You embody our company value of Join Forces and have zero tolerance for people not willing to collaborate.
Come help build the next generation of enterprise capabilities that extend Axons ecosystem and deliver meaningful impact for public safety.
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 Software Engineering Manager
- Lead technical discovery for new enterprise product concepts: translate ambiguous customer problems into shippable prototypes and measurable experiments
- Build proofs-of-concept that integrate with and build on top of the Axon ecosystem (platform services identity/access data workflows integrations hardware)
- Partner closely with Product Management Design and customer development partners to validate value usability and feasibility
- Establish architectural direction for concepts that graduate from POC to productdefining target-state designs key technical decisions and migration paths
- Set a high bar for security reliability privacy performance and maintainability appropriate for mission-critical enterprise environments
- Drive cross-team technical alignment: influence APIs platform capabilities data contracts observability standards and operational readiness
- Mentor engineers and model strong engineering practices (design docs iterative delivery pragmatic testing incident learnings and effective reviews)
What You Bring
- 10 years of professional software engineering experience
- A bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field (or equivalent)
- Proven ability to lead technical efforts across teamsaligning stakeholders driving architecture decisions and delivering outcomes
- Strong system design skills: you can design for scale availability operability and securityand explain tradeoffs clearly
- Experience building high-availability scalable cloud-based systems (microservices/event-driven systems)
- Experience integrating with external software systems
- Strong collaboration skills with Product and Design; comfortable working from ambiguous requirements and iterating quickly with customer feedback
- A track record of improving engineering effectiveness through mentorship technical standards and pragmatic process improvements
Nice to Have
- Experience building enterprise B2B products especially in regulated / high-trust environments (security compliance privacy auditability)
- Experience with identity authentication/authorization multi-tenant architectures and customer-managed configurations
- Experience with data platforms (streaming analytics search) integrations or workflow automation
- Experience with architecting workflows that span devices and cloud (firmware edge components secure networking ingestion/streaming and cloud orchestration)
- Hands-on expertise in observability reliability engineering and operational excellence (SLOs on-call readiness incident response)
Benefits that Benefit You
- Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
- Discretionary time off
- Paid parental leave for all
- Medical Dental Vision plans
- Fitness Programs
- Emotional & Development Programs
- 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. **
Axon is a total compensation company meaning compensation is made up of base pay bonus and stock awards. 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 Pay Range
$168750 - $270000 USD
Dont 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.
We collect personal information from applicants to evaluate candidates for employment. You may request access deletion or exercise other CCPA rights ator via ourAxon Privacy Web Form. For more information please see the Your California Privacy Rights section of ourApplicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.
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.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
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