Senior Staff Software Engineer

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. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in fostering a collaborative environment, working closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, operations, and other engineering teams. You will act as a liaison between these teams and executive leadership to ensure alignment between technical initiatives and business goals. Additionally, you will advise the VP on technical matters and strategic direction, providing expert guidance on technology decisions.

You will be a center of excellence, promoting a culture of quality, customer obsession, and simplicity. With deep technical expertise in cloud architecture, distributed systems, and data storage solutions, you will stay current with industry trends to bring cutting-edge solutions to the organization. This role offers an exciting opportunity to use your passion, experience, and analytical skills to create impactful solutions for public safety and make a positive difference in the world!

Key Responsibilities:

• Set and edit technical direction directly in programs and indirectly in reviews, communications, and documentation
• Provide architectural guidance to technical leaders
• Facilitate technology lifecycle and strategy roadmap
• Evaluate/review and improve existing systems and procedures
• Advise the VP on technical matters and strategic direction

What You Bring:

• Culture of Excellence: Successfully engendered a culture of engineering excellence across a broad organization
• Architecture Experience: Proven track record in driving the architecture for a large scale, cloud-based product with high availability, low latency, and high reliability
• PaaS: Proficiency with multiple data storage systems such as RDBMS, Cassandra, and large file systems and cloud-based architecture and designs
• Customer Obsession: Demonstrated value in driving features that improve customer experience
• Vision: Identifies future challenges/obstacles and opportunities for the technical roadmap
• Decision-Making Skills: Strong, data-driven decision-making approach, influencing with transparency
• Mentorship: Proven experience in mentoring and growing other staff engineers
• Leadership: Strong leadership skills fostering a collaborative environment

Join Axon and be a Force for Good in this fast-paced, challenging, and meaningful role where you'll take ownership and drive real change while constantly growing and working for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.