Senior Real-Time Systems Engineer (Hybrid)

Axon; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 141,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with employer match

Discretionary time off

Paid parental leave

Medical, Dental, Vision plans

Fitness Programs

Emotional & Development Programs

Snacks in offices

Job summary

Axon is seeking a senior software engineer to join a fast-moving team building high-performance, low-latency systems for public-safety products.

You will work on real-time communication platforms, tackle challenging engineering problems in AI-assisted development and ensure reliability at scale while mentoring teammates and collaborating cross-functionally. This hybrid role expects four days in our Manhattan office.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building and operating complex production systems.
• Hands‑on experience developing real‑time communication platforms or other low‑latency, real‑time systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and event‑driven architectures.
• Proven experience building highly available, fault‑tolerant services at scale.
• Experience adopting AI-assisted development tools throughout the SDLC to improve productivity and quality.

Responsibilities

• You’ll work on a small team building high-performance, mission‑critical devices with low‑latency communication requirements.
• In this role, you will tackle challenging engineering problems in audio/video processing and generative AI to bring features from inception to scale.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally to architect and launch new user‑facing features and products.
• Design and drive initiatives to improve the availability and reliability of backend systems.
• Mentor less experienced engineers and travel occasionally for deployments.

Skills

Real-time systems

Distributed systems

Fault-tolerant

Observability

AI-assisted tools

Job description

Axon is seeking a senior software engineer to join a fast-moving team building high-performance, low-latency systems for public-safety products.

You will work on real-time communication platforms, tackle challenging engineering problems in AI-assisted development and ensure reliability at scale while mentoring teammates and collaborating cross-functionally. This hybrid role expects four days in our Manhattan office.