Senior Security Operations Engineer II - Axon, Seattle, Washington

Security Services Worldwide; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Axon in Seattle is seeking a Senior Security Operations Engineer II to join the security team responsible for detecting and responding to threats. The role emphasizes building and tuning tools to spot intrusions and lead incident response efforts.

You're part of a high-stakes environment where data protection for public-safety systems matters, requiring rigorous security practices and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Security operations engineering is the detection-and-response side of information security.
• It involves building and tuning tooling to spot intrusions and respond to incidents.
• Protecting data for public-safety systems raises high-stakes security requirements.

Responsibilities

• This role focuses on detecting intrusions, responding to security incidents, and closing gaps in defenses.

Job description

• Senior Security Operations Engineer II - Axon, Seattle, Washington

Senior Security Operations Engineer II - Axon, Seattle, Washington

Employer: Axon | Location: Seattle, Washington, United States

About this role

Security operations engineering is the detection-and-response side of information security: building and tuning the tooling that spots intrusions, running incident response when something lands, and closing the gaps that let it in. At a company supplying law-enforcement and public-safety systems, the data being defended raises the stakes considerably.

Why this role is worth noting

Information security analyst is the fastest-growing of the four occupations in the security workforce — 29% projected growth to 2034 against flat guarding employment, with a median wage of $124,910 (US Bureau of Labor Statistics). For anyone in physical security weighing where to specialise next, this is where the curve is steepest. The full comparison is in our careers data .