Senior Cloud Networking Architect — Multi-Cloud & AI

Axon; Washington; Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary & 401k

PTO

Parental leave

Medical/Dental/Vision

Fitness programs

Wellness support

Learning & Development

ERGs

Office snacks

Job summary

Axon is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the architecture and implementation of its cloud networking stack across multiple clouds. You will influence architecture decisions, drive cross-team initiatives, and mentor senior engineers while shaping security, performance, and cost strategies for mission-critical public-safety software.

You will collaborate with infrastructure, platform, security and product teams to ensure reliable, scalable, and compliant connectivity, with a strong

Qualifications

• 15+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep networking expertise.
• Networking development experience at an established company, with a track record of building and operating networking systems at scale.
• Expert knowledge of core networking technologies and protocols, such as VPC/VNET, routing, DNS, load balancing, and VPN
• Experience designing and building networking for public cloud environments, ideally AWS and/or Azure
• Experience with multi-cloud or inter-cloud connectivity (nice to have)
• Expertise in designing and implementing networking and cloud service architecture that complies to government compliance standards such as FedRAMP and GovRAMP (nice to have)
• Hands-on experience in leveraging the latest AI engineering tools to accelerate throughout software development lifecycle
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages used in systems engineering, such as Go, C, C++, Python, or Java
• A track record of articulating and executing on technical strategy (Aim Far)
• Strong written and verbal communication and sound decision-making that balances technical and business objectives
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing across teams without direct authority
• A high bar on standards of excellence, and the ability to raise the bar for the engineers around you
• Comfort working through ambiguous, high-stakes problems and making steady progress

Responsibilities

• Define the architecture and technical strategy for Axon's cloud networking, including connectivity between clouds
• Lead the redesign of our networking stack from design through production rollout
• Drive technical decisions on availability, performance, security, compliance, and cost
• Provide deep technical insight in architecture and design reviews, and set a high bar for standards of excellence
• Join forces with infrastructure, platform, security, and product teams to deliver complex, cross-team initiatives
• Identify networking and cloud service risks early and advise engineering leadership on where to invest
• Mentor and coach senior engineers and grow the next generation of technical leaders
• Stay current on cloud computing technologies and bring in new approaches where they improve our systems
• Set group level AI strategy for engineering, and lead by example, in engineering acceleration with AI

Skills

Networking

Public cloud

AWS / Azure

Multi-cloud

GovFedRAMP

AI in dev

Systems languages

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Strategic thinking

Security & compliance

Job description

Axon is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the architecture and implementation of its cloud networking stack across multiple clouds. You will influence architecture decisions, drive cross-team initiatives, and mentor senior engineers while shaping security, performance, and cost strategies for mission-critical public-safety software.

You will collaborate with infrastructure, platform, security and product teams to ensure reliable, scalable, and compliant connectivity, with a strong