Sr Software Engineer II, Axon Air

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.

What You’ll Do

Location: Seattle, WA

• 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.

What You Bring

• 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. Experience launching startups a plus.


• Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments and driving solutions end-to-end.


• Able to rapidly understand unfamiliar codebases and deliver durable solutions.

Work Location

This role is based out of our Seattle Office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in-person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation.
Benefits that Benefit You

• Competitive salary and 401k with employer match


• Discretionary time off


• Paid parental leave for all


• Medical, Dental, Vision plans


• Fitness Programs


• Emotional & Development Programs


• And yes, we have snacks in our offices

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 ( .

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 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.

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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.

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