Senior Software Engineer, Axon 911 (Relocation Assistance Available)
About The Position
Axon 911, formed by bringing Prepared and Carbyne together under Axon, is building a platform that combines modern 911 infrastructure with an AI intelligence layer. The Senior Software Engineer will join a small team developing high-performance, mission-critical devices with low-latency communication requirements. The role involves solving engineering problems in areas such as audio/video processing and generative AI, and bringing new features and products from inception to scale while balancing development speed with the stability required for mission-critical products. This is a hybrid role requiring four days per week in Axon's Manhattan office. Relocation assistance is available to candidates currently based in the U.S. and authorized to work for a U.S. employer. Occasional travel may be required to support customer deployments and onsite implementations.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience, including designing, building, and operating complex production systems.
- Hands-on experience building real-time audio or video systems, such as VoIP or live communications platforms.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
- Proven experience building highly available, fault-tolerant, and resilient services at scale.
- Expertise in reliability patterns such as redundancy, failover, graceful degradation, recovery, and observability.
- Demonstrated technical ownership of business-critical systems where performance, uptime, and reliability are essential.
- Experience adopting and effectively integrating AI-assisted development tools throughout the software development lifecycle to improve engineering productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, and delivery.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate cross-functionally to architect and launch new user-facing features and products.
- Design and drive initiatives to improve the availability and reliability of backend systems.
- Continuously improve engineering processes and tools that support scaling the codebase and team.
- Provide mentorship to less experienced engineers.
- Travel occasionally to support customer deployments and onsite implementations.
Benefits
- Competitive salary.
- 401(k) with employer match.
- Discretionary time off.
- Paid parental leave for all.
- Medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Fitness programs.
- Emotional and development programs.
- Snacks in the offices.
- Bonus and stock awards as components of total compensation.
- Relocation assistance is available for eligible candidates.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
