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. We are Axon Platform X (APX), a group of dedicated product professionals that own, build and operate the mission critical services and capabilities that Axon products need like authentication, evidentiary chain of trust, evidence storage, and x-platform cloud foundations. Our customers are Axon products like Evidence.com, Axon Records, Axon Real Time Operations and Axon Devices (TASER and Connected Cameras) that use our services and APIs to execute the mission of protecting life, reducing social conflict, and building a fair and effective justice system. The capabilities that APX owns are the heart and lungs for all Axon products. We protect customer trust by securely authenticating users, systems, and first / third party apps as well as enforcing permissions within all Axon products. We ingest well over 10PB of digital evidence per week from Axon products like body cameras and securely storing data for later evidentiary use. APX sets the standards and leads the way for the entire company on operational excellence, incident response, and service reliability engineering. We ensure our systems are highly reliable, scalable, and cost efficient - in support of all world-wide Axon products and services. Every important event of note within Axon products leaves an imprint through our audit services, ensuring trust in our evidence as it moves through the criminal justice system.
Responsibilities
- Set a high technical bar for the team through deep technical insights and architecture design reviews
- Mentor senior engineers
- Work 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
- Build services that adhere to our high bar on availability, performance, and security in this mission-critical space
- Work with the latest open source technologies
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering
- Experience building and scaling complex and impactful software products in a team environment
- Deep skill in driving technical solutions across multiple teams
- Strong experience with IaC using Terraform and Terragrunt
- Backend cloud experience in managed languages such as Scala, Java, Go, C#, or similar
- Experience designing and delivering high-available, scalable cloud-based systems
- Track record of setting the technical and organizational direction for a growing engineering team across multiple global locations
Benefits
- 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
- Snacks in our offices
