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.
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. Axon Air delivers DroneasFirstResponder (DFR) solutions that augment first responders with autonomous drones that arrive fast and provide critical situational awareness to keep officers and communities safer. 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 fastpaced 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
As a Sr. Software Engineer II on Axon Air you will design and ship core systems that enable autonomous DFR operations and the integrations that make them effective in the field. Youll work across Axon Evidence Axon Fusus Dedrone Beyond and partner platforms like Skydio to build reliable secure and scalable services that deliver situational awareness to first responders within minutes of an incident. Your work will directly advance Axons moonshot goal to cut gunrelated deaths between police and the public by 50% over the next decade.
Join us to work with a passionate mission-driven group who want to positively impact first responders and the people they serve.
What Youll Do
Location: Seattle WA
- Build and own backend systems and integration layers that connect drones edge processing and cloud services (e.g. evidence ingestion telemetry live video routing cataloging).
- Implement features that enable rapid autonomous deployments (dispatch mission state failover) and that satisfy stringent operational requirements (latency availability security and auditability).
- Develop and harden interfaces between Axon products and partner systems ensuring secure data exchange and nearrealtime interoperability.
- Define and implement observability KPIs and incident playbooks for DFR services
- Mentor senior engineers lead crossteam design reviews and help establish engineering standards for missioncritical robotic systems.
- Partner with product and engineering leadershipand crossfunctional stakeholdersto capture real field workflows and constraints turn them into crisp requirements and drive technical designs and roadmaps that stick.
- Drive multiteam execution: align priorities and dependencies across org boundaries unblock delivery and strengthen the planning and operating rhythms that let teams ship together.
- Own endtoend delivery for crossteam initiativesfrom discovery through launchincluding sprint/epic planning release orchestration and highquality artifacts (release notes runbooks) plus customerfacing demos and field readiness.
- Support commercialization and scaling efforts (BVLOS readiness airspace awareness costeffective operations) through pragmatic engineering tradeoffs and prototype iterations.
What You Bring
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field.
- Owned multiyear technical roadmaps for enterprise or startup systemssetting vision prioritizing investments and guiding architecture-to-scale execution.
- Proven experience delivering production systems that integrate hardware edge and cloud components for timesensitive operations.
- Strong experience with backend services and languages such as Java Scala Go C# or similar.
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL data stores and operational practices (monitoring SLOs).
- Proven ability to influence technical direction and mentor senior engineers.
- Entrepreneurial drive you own outcomes balance rapid delivery with pragmatic validation (experiments customer feedback) to ship highimpact solutions. Experience launching startups a plus.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments and driving solutions end-to-end.
- Able to rapidly understand unfamiliar codebases and deliver durable solutions.
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 flexibility to work remotely on Mondays unless there is an approved workplace accommodation.
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
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
$148500 - $237600 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:
Senior 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.
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. Axon Air delivers DroneasFirstResponder (DFR) solutions that augment first responders with autonomous drones that arrive fast and provide critical situational awareness to keep officers and communities safer. 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 fastpaced 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
As a Sr. Software Engineer II on Axon Air you will design and ship core systems that enable autonomous DFR operations and the integrations that make them effective in the field. Youll work across Axon Evidence Axon Fusus Dedrone Beyond and partner platforms like Skydio to build reliable secure and scalable services that deliver situational awareness to first responders within minutes of an incident. Your work will directly advance Axons moonshot goal to cut gunrelated deaths between police and the public by 50% over the next decade.
Join us to work with a passionate mission-driven group who want to positively impact first responders and the people they serve.
What Youll Do
Location: Seattle WA
- Build and own backend systems and integration layers that connect drones edge processing and cloud services (e.g. evidence ingestion telemetry live video routing cataloging).
- Implement features that enable rapid autonomous deployments (dispatch mission state failover) and that satisfy stringent operational requirements (latency availability security and auditability).
- Develop and harden interfaces between Axon products and partner systems ensuring secure data exchange and nearrealtime interoperability.
- Define and implement observability KPIs and incident playbooks for DFR services
- Mentor senior engineers lead crossteam design reviews and help establish engineering standards for missioncritical robotic systems.
- Partner with product and engineering leadershipand crossfunctional stakeholdersto capture real field workflows and constraints turn them into crisp requirements and drive technical designs and roadmaps that stick.
- Drive multiteam execution: align priorities and dependencies across org boundaries unblock delivery and strengthen the planning and operating rhythms that let teams ship together.
- Own endtoend delivery for crossteam initiativesfrom discovery through launchincluding sprint/epic planning release orchestration and highquality artifacts (release notes runbooks) plus customerfacing demos and field readiness.
- Support commercialization and scaling efforts (BVLOS readiness airspace awareness costeffective operations) through pragmatic engineering tradeoffs and prototype iterations.
What You Bring
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field.
- Owned multiyear technical roadmaps for enterprise or startup systemssetting vision prioritizing investments and guiding architecture-to-scale execution.
- Proven experience delivering production systems that integrate hardware edge and cloud components for timesensitive operations.
- Strong experience with backend services and languages such as Java Scala Go C# or similar.
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL data stores and operational practices (monitoring SLOs).
- Proven ability to influence technical direction and mentor senior engineers.
- Entrepreneurial drive you own outcomes balance rapid delivery with pragmatic validation (experiments customer feedback) to ship highimpact solutions. Experience launching startups a plus.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments and driving solutions end-to-end.
- Able to rapidly understand unfamiliar codebases and deliver durable solutions.
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 flexibility to work remotely on Mondays unless there is an approved workplace accommodation.
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
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
$148500 - $237600 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:
Senior IC
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