Senior Software Engineer II (Entity Graph)

Axon•Seattle, WA

2d•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 The Entity Graph team builds the core knowledge graph and services that connect people, places, events, cases, and their relationships across Axon’s ecosystem. We enable unified, trustworthy views of incidents, evidence, and workflows used daily by officers, investigators, and analysts. As a Senior Software Engineer II on the Entity Graph team, you will lead the architecture, implementation, and operation of services that model and query real-world entities at scale. You’ll drive complex cross-team initiatives, set technical direction, mentor engineers, and raise the bar for system design and reliability. This is a high-ownership, high-leverage role. Your team’s work is central to the product’s data architecture, and your decisions will have direct impact on our customers and public safety outcomes. Come work in an exciting, mission-driven environment where you use your passion, experience, and analytical skills to help scale solutions for public safety and leave a positive impact on the world. What You’ll Do 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 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

Strong backend engineering experience (typically 8+ years) with proven technical leadership.
Proficiency in one or more modern languages (e.g., Java/Kotlin, C#, Go, or similar) and cloud-native service development.
Experience designing data models for complex, interrelated domains and working with relational and NoSQL/graph stores.
Solid systems design skills for distributed, high-throughput services.
Clear communicator who collaborates effectively across teams.
Security- and privacy-conscious mindset.

Nice To Haves

Experience with knowledge graphs, entity resolution, or graph databases.
Familiarity with streaming systems (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub) and observability tools.

Responsibilities

Design and implement scalable services for entity modeling, ingestion, indexing, and query.
Define and evolve data and schema models for interconnected records.
Lead end-to-end projects: architecture, implementation, and delivery.
Collaborate with product and data partners to translate requirements into technical solutions.
Improve service reliability, testing, and observability.
Mentor peers and contribute to engineering best practices.

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