Job description
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 senior engineer on Axon’s Connected Devices Cloud team, you will drive the architecture and evolution of cloud services that power the next generation of connected devices for first responders. You live and breathe highly-available, low-latency systems and excel at turning complex, data-intensive challenges into elegant, reliable solutions. Your technical leadership will influence multiple teams, and your passion for our mission will shape products that truly matter in the field. You love working with the latest open source technologies, and can leverage your system design skills to make the right technical decisions on a system that needs to be bullet-proof.
Not only can you drive decisions among competing engineering trade-offs, your empathy with customers allows you to intuit innovative solutions for our customer problems. You will be working closely with product managers and designers to ensure we are building the right solution for our customers. You also enjoy mentoring other engineers, and love to be a hands-on teacher helping to up level the engineers around you.
Join us to work with a passionate, mission-driven group of folks who want to positively impact the lives of first responders and those that they serve.
What You’ll Do
Location: Work from home as much as you want, live nearby any of our awesome US R&D Hubs (Seattle, Scottsdale, Atlanta, or Boston) so you can easily collab in-person when it’s helpful and be an active part of our vibrant Axon culture.
Reports to: Engineering Manager
Direct reports: 0
- Lead system design & architecture for large-scale, Kubernetes-based services, owning decisions on deployment patterns, auto-scaling, resource orchestration, and operational automation.
- Set the technical bar: write well-tested, maintainable code; conduct rigorous code and design reviews; and champion engineering best practices across Axon.
- Guide cross-team initiatives: facilitating design/spec reviews, mentoring engineers, and driving pillar-wide improvements in reliability, performance, and operational efficiency.
- Own availability & performance: shape service capacity planning, resource tuning (CPU/memory), SLO/SLA definition, and resilience patterns for mission-critical workloads.
- Advance our DevOps stack: evolve secure, repeatable CI/CD pipelines with ArgoCD, Terraform, and Kubernetes; and integrate robust observability.
- Collaborate deeply with Product, Design, and partner engineering groups to craft integrated solutions that delight customers in public safety and beyond.
- Act as a culture carrier: model growth mindset, inclusive collaboration, and relentless pursuit of Axon’s mission to Protect Life, while leveraging modern AI tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and ChatGPT to accelerate development workflows, enhance productivity, and support decision‑making, documentation, and problem‑solving.
What You Bring
Required Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 8+ years designing, building, and operating distributed, highly-available cloud systems.
- Proven mastery of backend service development in managed languages such as Go, Java, Scala, or C#.
- Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and at least one IaC tool (Terraform preferred).
- Deep knowledge of SQL and/or NoSQL datastores and data-intensive system patterns.
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams and mentor senior engineers.
Preferred Qualification
- Production experience with ArgoCD, and k8s autoscaling strategies.
- Track record of driving CI/CD excellence and secure software supply-chain practices.
- Familiarity with connected-device ecosystems or edge-to-cloud data pipelines.
- Strong communication skills and the discernment to balance innovation with pragmatic delivery.
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
The Pay:
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 148,500 in the lowest geographic market and USD 237,600 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 www.axon.com/careers/benefits.
Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work.
#LI-Hybrid
Don’t meet every single requirement? That’s 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 you’re excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesn’t 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.
Axon’s mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being and safety of its employees as well as Axon’s 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. We’re 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 [email protected]. Please note that this email address is for accommodation purposes only. Axon will not respond to inquiries for other purposes.
