Senior Software Engineer I, (Infrastructure)

Axon•Seattle, WA

2h•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 You’ll help shape the future of infrastructure automation for law enforcement systems worldwide. With your technical expertise and focus on quality, you’ll contribute to the foundation of fast, reliable cloud services that support Axon’s platform. As part of our distributed engineering team, you’ll design and deliver self-service infrastructure solutions that empower development teams to innovate rapidly. You’ll work closely with site reliability engineers (SREs) and software engineers (SWEs) to build platform-as-a-service (PaaS) capabilities for provisioning infrastructure. Your work will streamline operations, enhance reliability, and create scalable solutions that directly support public safety. 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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
8+ years of professional software development experience
Strong background building cloud-native, distributed solutions
Experience designing tooling and automation to simplify the operational management of SaaS/PaaS systems
Proficiency in backend services with multiple managed languages (e.g., Java, Scala, Go, C#, or similar)
Expertise with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) and building modular, reusable, testable components
Familiarity with Kubernetes platforms (e.g., AKS, EKS, or similar)
Hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms for automating infrastructure, builds, testing, and releases
Strong collaboration and communication skills, with empathy for the needs of engineering teams

Nice To Haves

Experience with modern IaC frameworks such as Pulumi, Crossplane, or AWS CDK
Exposure to multi-cloud environments (Azure, GCP)
Background in scaling large distributed systems and ensuring reliability/resilience

Responsibilities

Lead engineering architecture design reviews
Set a high technical bar for the team through code and architecture design reviews
Mentoring engineers
Working across teams with Product, Design, and Engineering to create integrated solutions that delight our customers
Improve our Engineering process, including long-term thinking, sprint planning and stand-ups
Building services that adhere to our high bar on availability and latency in this mission-critical space
Working with the latest open source technologies