Your ImpactYou 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.
What You'll DoWork Location: This role is based out of one of our US based offices 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.
Reports to: Director, Software Engineering
- 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)
What You Bring- 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 Have- 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)
Benefits that Benefit You- Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
- Discretionary paid time off
- Paid parental leave for all
- Medical, Dental, Vision plans
- Fitness Programs
- Emotional & Mental Wellness support
- Learning & Development programs
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
- And yes, we have snacks in our offices
Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work.
Axon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: level, function, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, geographic market, and often a combination of all these factors. Our benefits offer an array of options to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. To see more details on our benefits offerings please visit https://www.axon.com/careers.
Base Pay Range
$168,750-$270,000 USD
Don't meet every single requirement? That's ok. At Axon, we Aim Far. We think big with a long-term view because we want to reinvent the world to be a safer, better place. We are also committed to building diverse teams that reflect the communities we serve.
Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every box in the job description. If you're excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification listed here, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Important NotesThe above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all duties, responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job. The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.
Some roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.
