Senior Software Engineer I - Connected Devices

Axon•Seattle, WA

1d•$141,000 - $225,600•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
6+ 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.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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.