Sr Software Engineer II

Axon•Seattle, WA

1d•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 the team, you will be intimately involved in the architecture decisions that will shape this product. You live and breathe cloud services that require high availability and fast, consistent performance. 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

8+ years of experience in software engineering
Experience building complex and impactful software in a team environment
Deep skill in driving technical solutions across multiple teams
Backend service experience in managed languages such as C#, Java, Scala, Go, or similar
Strong experience with database, especially SQL and Cassandra
Experience building out cloud architecture in Azure and/or AWS
Experience designing and delivering high-availability, scalable cloud-based systems
You write beautiful, simple, maintainable code for backend microservices
Interest in helping to set the technical and organizational direction for a growing engineering team across multiple US locations
Experience leveraging agentic AI in all your day-to-day work

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 solve some of our biggest technical challenges within our stack for 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