Staff Software Engineer

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.

You are a Staff Software Engineer with experience building large-scale software applications and distributed systems. In this role, you will help shape the technical direction for DEMS, a mission-critical product area where reliability, security, and usability matter deeply. You will collaborate with other senior and staff engineers, engineering managers, product managers, and designers to solve complex customer problems and build durable systems that scale.

Your strong system design skills allow you to take a holistic view of architecture, reliability, and developer productivity. You raise the bar not just through your own contributions, but by reviewing designs, mentoring engineers, improving technical decision-making, and helping teams align around pragmatic, high-quality solutions.

As a senior technical contributor, you are energized by solving hard problems, reducing ambiguity, and building systems that perform under real-world demands. As a technical leader, you partner with engineering leadership on long-term technical strategy while balancing business priorities, roadmap commitments, and engineering health.

Come work in an environment where your experience, judgment, and technical leadership will directly contribute to products that help deliver better outcomes in public safety.

• 15+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience building and scaling complex software products in a collaborative team environment.
• Deep expertise in backend systems and distributed system design.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms and production service operations.
• Experience driving technical solutions across multiple teams or broad product areas.
• Strong understanding of system design, reliability, performance, observability, and security.
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Track record of writing clean, maintainable, production-grade code.
• Proven ability to influence technical direction and organizational outcomes without relying on formal authority.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Experience in enterprise SaaS, mission-critical systems, compliance-sensitive domains, or workflow-heavy platforms.
• Experience with evidence management, records systems, chain-of-custody concepts, or highly trusted data systems.
• Experience supporting hybrid, on-prem, or cloud-connected product architectures.
• Familiarity with languages and platforms commonly used in modern backend environments such as Java, Go, C#, Python, or similar.

The 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.

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Axon’s mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being and safety of its employees as well as Axon’s impact on the environment. All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental, health, and safety regulations, policies, and procedures. Axon employees are empowered to report safety concerns as they arise and activities potentially impacting the environment.

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