Axon · 8 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise New Markets
Seattle, Washington, United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$169K/yr - $270K/yr
10+ years expAxon is a company on a mission to Protect Life, focusing on safety and justice issues through its devices and cloud software. The Staff Software Engineer will lead technical discovery for new enterprise product concepts, build proofs-of-concept, and establish architectural direction, all while fostering collaboration across teams to ensure the development of secure and scalable products.
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Responsibilities
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 product—defining 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)
Qualification
Required
10+ years of professional software engineering experience
A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent)
Proven ability to lead technical efforts across teams—aligning stakeholders, driving architecture decisions, and delivering outcomes
Strong system design skills: you can design for scale, availability, operability, and security—and 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
Preferred
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
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
Company
Axon
Axon provides electronic control devices to law enforcement and corrections agencies.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2B2025-03-05Post Ipo Debt· $1.75B
2018-08-07Post Ipo Equity· $246M
2001-06-07IPO
Leadership Team
Jay Reitz
SVP Software Engineering
Anthony Baldoni
VP Strategic Initiatives
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