Sr Software Engineer II

Axon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 148,500 - 237,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and 401k with employer match

Discretionary paid time off

Paid parental leave

Fitness Programs

Emotional & Mental Wellness support

Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

Snacks in offices

Job summary

A leading tech company in Seattle is seeking a Senior Engineer to drive architectural decisions for cloud services. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience in software engineering with expertise in backend services. Responsibilities include mentoring other engineers and collaborating across teams to solve technical challenges. This position offers a hybrid work model and competitive benefits including a salary range of $148,500 - $237,600 USD.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Deep skill in driving technical solutions across multiple teams.
• Experience building high-availability cloud-based systems.

Responsibilities

• Set high technical standards for the team through design reviews.
• Mentor engineers within the team.
• Collaborate with Product and Design to solve technical challenges.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Cloud architecture expertise

Backend service experience

Database management

Good communication skills

Mentoring abilities

Tools

C#

Java

Scala

Go

SQL

Cassandra

Azure

AWS

Job description

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 senior engineer on the team, you will be intimately involved in the architecture decisions that will shape this product. You live and breathe cloud services that require high availability and fast, consistent performance. You love working with the latest open source 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.

What You’ll Do

Work Location: This role is based out of our Seattle, WA office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in‑person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation. We believe that connection fuels innovation, and our in‑office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success.
Reports to: Director of Engineering, VR
Direct Reports: None

• Set a high technical bar for the team through code and architecture design reviews
• Mentoring engineers
• Working across teams with Product, Design, and Engineering to solve some of our biggest technical challenges within our stack for our customers
• Improve our engineering process, including long‑term thinking, sprint planning and stand‑ups
• Building services that adhere to our high bar on availability and latency in this mission‑critical space
• Working with the latest open source technologies

What You Bring

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering
• Experience building complex and impactful software in a team environment
• Deep skill in driving technical solutions across multiple teams
• Backend service experience in managed languages such as C#, Java, Scala, Go, or similar
• Strong experience with database, especially SQL and Cassandra
• Experience building out cloud architecture in Azure and/or AWS
• Experience designing and delivering high‑availability, scalable cloud‑based systems
• You write beautiful, simple, maintainable code for backend microservices
• Interest in helping to set the technical and organizational direction for a growing engineering team across multiple US locations
• Experience leveraging agentic AI in all your day‑to‑day work

Benefits that Benefit You

• Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
• Discretionary paid time off
• Paid parental leave for all
• Fitness Programs
• Emotional & Mental Wellness support
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
• And yes, we have snacks in our offices

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

Axon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: level, function, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, geographic market, and often a combination of all these factors. Our benefits offer an array of options to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. To see more details on our benefits offerings please visit https://www.axon.com/careers.

Base Pay Range

$148,500 - $237,600 USD

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 anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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.