Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise New Markets

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 You are a Staff Software Engineer who thrives at the intersection of technical leadership, rapid product discovery, and customer obsession. On Enterprise, you’ll help Axon identify and prove new product-market fit by building high-leverage proof-of-concepts with real customer workflows, then laying the technical foundation to evolve the best concepts into secure, scalable, production-ready products across the Axon ecosystem. You bring strong system design judgment and an outcomes-first mindset: you know when to move fast with a prototype, how to design experiments that de-risk big bets, and how to translate learnings into durable architectures teams can build on. You’re a force multiplier—raising the technical bar through design reviews, mentoring, and cross-team alignment—and you partner deeply with Product Management and customer development partners to ensure we build the right thing, the right way. You foster a friendly, open, introspective culture that encourages everyone to speak their mind and avoid red tape, unnecessary rituals, bureaucracy and politics. You embody our company value of Join Forces, and have zero tolerance for people not willing to collaborate. Come help build the next generation of enterprise capabilities that extend Axon’s ecosystem and deliver meaningful impact for public safety.

Requirements

10+ years of professional software engineering experience
A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent)
Proven ability to lead technical efforts across teams—aligning stakeholders, driving architecture decisions, and delivering outcomes
Strong system design skills: you can design for scale, availability, operability, and security—and explain tradeoffs clearly
Experience building high-availability, scalable cloud-based systems (microservices/event-driven systems)
Experience integrating with external software systems
Strong collaboration skills with Product and Design; comfortable working from ambiguous requirements and iterating quickly with customer feedback
A track record of improving engineering effectiveness through mentorship, technical standards, and pragmatic process improvements

Nice To Haves

Experience building enterprise B2B products, especially in regulated / high-trust environments (security, compliance, privacy, auditability)
Experience with identity, authentication/authorization, multi-tenant architectures, and customer-managed configurations
Experience with data platforms (streaming, analytics, search), integrations, or workflow automation
Experience with architecting workflows that span devices and cloud (firmware, edge components, secure networking, ingestion/streaming, and cloud orchestration)
Hands-on expertise in observability, reliability engineering, and operational excellence (SLOs, on-call readiness, incident response)

Responsibilities

Lead technical discovery for new enterprise product concepts: translate ambiguous customer problems into shippable prototypes and measurable experiments
Build proofs-of-concept that integrate with and build on top of the Axon ecosystem (platform services, identity/access, data, workflows, integrations, hardware)
Partner closely with Product Management, Design, and customer development partners to validate value, usability, and feasibility
Establish architectural direction for concepts that graduate from POC to product—defining target-state designs, key technical decisions, and migration paths
Set a high bar for security, reliability, privacy, performance, and maintainability appropriate for mission-critical enterprise environments
Drive cross-team technical alignment: influence APIs, platform capabilities, data contracts, observability standards, and operational readiness
Mentor engineers and model strong engineering practices (design docs, iterative delivery, pragmatic testing, incident learnings, and effective reviews)