Senior Software Engineer, Privacy

National Society for Black Engineers; Lincoln (NE); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company dedicated to enhancing public safety through innovative technology. As a technical lead in the Privacy team, you'll be at the forefront of developing robust privacy tools and services. Your expertise in cloud services and system design will shape critical architecture decisions, driving impactful solutions for customer data protection. Collaborate with passionate professionals in a vibrant culture that values diversity and inclusion. This role offers the chance to mentor fellow engineers and make a real difference in the lives of first responders and the communities they serve.

Benefits

Competitive salary

401k with employer match

Discretionary paid time off

Paid parental leave

Medical, Dental, Vision plans

Fitness Programs

Emotional & Mental Wellness support

Learning & Development programs

Snacks in the office

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software development experience with cloud-based systems.
• Experience with system integration and API design.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain back-end systems for privacy compliance.
• Mentor engineers and lead design reviews.

Skills

Cloud Services

System Design

APIs Development

Microservices

Data Compliance

Mentoring Engineers

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Azure

AWS

Kubernetes

SQL

NoSQL

Job description

Join Axon and be a Force for Good.

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.

Your Impact

As a technical lead on the Privacy team, you will build software to support Axon privacy mission. You will be intimately involved in the architecture decisions that will shape privacy tools and services. You live and breathe cloud services that require high availability and fast, consistent performance. You love working with the latest privacy enhancing technologies, and can leverage your system design skills to make the right technical decisions on a system that needs to be bullet-proof.

Not only can you drive decisions among competing engineering trade-offs, your empathy with customers allows you to intuit innovative solutions for our customer problems. You will be working closely with product managers and designers to ensure we are building the right solution for our customers. You also enjoy mentoring other engineers, and love to be a hands-on teacher helping to up level the engineers around you.

Join us to work with a passionate, mission-driven group of folks who want to positively impact the lives of first responders and those that they serve.

What You'll Do

Location: Work from home as much as you want, live nearby any of our awesome US R&D Hubs (San Francisco, Seattle, Scottsdale, Atlanta, or Boston) so you can easily collab in-person when it's helpful and be an active part of our vibrant Axon culture.
Reports to: Director, Global Head of Privacy
Direct Reports: 0

• Design, build, and maintain back-end systems and services that power privacy and data compliance across Axon ecosystem, such as tools that enable other teams to automate tasks involving managing and protecting customer data.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Mentor engineers
• Work with the latest open source technologies

What You Bring

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 6+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience designing and delivering highly-available, scalable cloud-based systems on Azure, AWS, or other public cloud infrastructure
• Experience with at least two of the areas below:
  • Experience integrating 3rd party solutions to internal systems and services
  • Experience with system to system communication implementation, high-scale microservices, Kubernetes, service orchestration/inter-service authentication, CI/CD pipelines setup and tune up
  • Design, implement, and tune robust APIs and API framework related features that perform and scale in a multi-tenant envionment
  • Backend service experience in multiple, managed languages such as Java, Scala, Go, C#, Python, or similar language
  • Experience working with SQL or NoSQL data stores
  • Experience building data pipelines, especially for privacy process and workflows
  • Experience with implementing data anonymization/de-identification tools

Benefits that Benefit You

• Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
• Discretionary paid time off
• Paid parental leave for all
• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Fitness Programs
• Emotional & Mental Wellness support
• Learning & Development programs
• And yes, we have snacks in our offices

Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work.

Don't meet every single requirement? That's ok. At Axon, we Aim Far. We think big with a long-term view because we want to reinvent the world to be a safer, better place. We are also committed to building diverse teams that reflect the communities we serve.

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every box in the job description. If you're excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification listed here, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Important Notes

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.

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.

We are an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice, advances equity, values diversity and fosters inclusion. We're committed to hiring the best talent - regardless of race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances - and empowering all of our employees so they can do their best work. If you have a disability or special need that requires assistance or accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email [e-mail]. Please note that this email address is for accommodation purposes only. Axon will not respond to inquiries for other purposes.