Sr Software Engineer II, Axon Air

Axon•Seattle, WA

16h•Hybrid

About The Position

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. 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. Axon Air delivers Drone‑as‑First‑Responder (DFR) solutions that augment first responders with autonomous drones that arrive fast and provide critical situational awareness to keep officers and communities safer. 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 Sr. Software Engineer II on Axon Air, you will design and ship core systems that enable autonomous DFR operations and the integrations that make them effective in the field. You’ll work across Axon Evidence, Axon Fusus, Dedrone Beyond, and partner platforms like Skydio to build reliable, secure, and scalable services that deliver situational awareness to first responders within minutes of an incident. Your work will directly advance Axon’s moonshot goal to cut gun‑related deaths between police and the public by 50% over the next decade. Join us to work with a passionate, mission-driven group who want to positively impact first responders and the people they serve.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
Owned multi‑year technical roadmaps for enterprise or startup systems—setting vision, prioritizing investments, and guiding architecture-to-scale execution.
Proven experience delivering production systems that integrate hardware, edge, and cloud components for time‑sensitive operations.
Strong experience with backend services and languages such as Java, Scala, Go, C#, or similar.
Experience with SQL and NoSQL data stores and operational practices (monitoring, SLOs).
Proven ability to influence technical direction and mentor senior engineers.
Entrepreneurial drive — you own outcomes, balance rapid delivery with pragmatic validation (experiments, customer feedback) to ship high‑impact solutions.
Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments and driving solutions end-to-end.
Able to rapidly understand unfamiliar codebases and deliver durable solutions.

Nice To Haves

Experience launching startups a plus.

Responsibilities

Build and own backend systems and integration layers that connect drones, edge processing, and cloud services (e.g., evidence ingestion, telemetry, live video routing, cataloging).
Implement features that enable rapid autonomous deployments (dispatch, mission state, failover) and that satisfy stringent operational requirements (latency, availability, security, and auditability).
Develop and harden interfaces between Axon products and partner systems, ensuring secure data exchange and near‑real‑time interoperability.
Define and implement observability, KPIs, and incident playbooks for DFR services
Mentor senior engineers, lead cross‑team design reviews, and help establish engineering standards for mission‑critical robotic systems.
Partner with product and engineering leadership—and cross‑functional stakeholders—to capture real field workflows and constraints, turn them into crisp requirements, and drive technical designs and roadmaps that stick.
Drive multi‑team execution: align priorities and dependencies across org boundaries, unblock delivery, and strengthen the planning and operating rhythms that let teams ship together.
Own end‑to‑end delivery for cross‑team initiatives—from discovery through launch—including sprint/epic planning, release orchestration, and high‑quality artifacts (release notes, runbooks), plus customer‑facing demos and field readiness.
Support commercialization and scaling efforts (BVLOS readiness, airspace awareness, cost‑effective operations) through pragmatic engineering tradeoffs and prototype iterations.