Senior Director, Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

Axon Enterprise; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 352,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & 401k

PTO

Parental leave

Fitness programs

Wellness support

Snacks in office

Job summary

Axon Enterprise in Seattle is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to own the core infrastructure platform for Axon cloud services. You will lead globally distributed teams, set technical direction, and ensure reliable, secure systems with exceptional developer experience.

You will partner with product and security, drive AI-enabled engineering practices, and mentor engineering managers to raise the bar across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent highly technical field.
• 15+ years of experience leading engineering teams, including experience leading managers of managers.
• Hands-on experience growing software development organizations that build large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience running cloud services at scale on a major cloud provider such as AWS or Azure.
• Deep domain expertise in modern Infrastructure-as-Code technologies and core infrastructure components, such as compute, networking, observability, and developer platforms, with a track record of leading platform or infrastructure engineering teams.
• Deep understanding of delivering high-quality, high-velocity software to production.
• Hands-on experience applying AI in engineering workflows, with the ability to evaluate effectiveness, manage cost, and drive adoption at scale.
• Proven results delivering outcomes while managing ambiguity, organizational change, and competing priorities.
• Experience collaborating with diverse stakeholders, including business leaders, customers, and security teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, backed by strong technical and business vision.
• Experience leading globally distributed teams across multiple regions and time zones, with the ability to build a cohesive culture and strong execution across locations.

Responsibilities

• Define the long‑term technical strategy and architecture for the core infrastructure platform, and lead the critical technical decisions that shape it
• Deliver highly reliable, secure, and scalable systems that meet a high bar for quality
• Ensure the core infrastructure platform enables a delightful developer experience for the engineers who build on it
• Partner with peer engineering leaders, Product Management and Security to align long‑term strategy with near‑term roadmaps and customer commitments
• Lead the transformation of how we engineer, coaching engineers into AI‑native technical leaders
• Lead and develop a team of engineering managers and technical leads, hire exceptional talent, and raise the engineering hiring bar across Axon
• Build a culture of candor, accountability, continuous learning, and strong team engagement

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

AI in engineering

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

Terraform

Job description

Axon Enterprise in Seattle is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to own the core infrastructure platform for Axon cloud services. You will lead globally distributed teams, set technical direction, and ensure reliable, secure systems with exceptional developer experience.

You will partner with product and security, drive AI-enabled engineering practices, and mentor engineering managers to raise the bar across the organization.