Senior Staff Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Define the architecture and technical strategy for Axon’s cloud networking, including connectivity between clouds.
• Lead the redesign of the networking stack from design through production rollout.
• Drive technical decisions involving availability, performance, security, compliance, and cost.
• Provide technical leadership in architecture and design reviews and establish engineering standards.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, platform, security, and product engineering teams on complex cross-team initiatives.
• Identify networking and cloud service risks and advise engineering leadership on investment priorities.
• Mentor and coach senior engineers and develop future technical leaders.
• Stay current on cloud computing technologies and introduce improved approaches.
• Set group-level AI strategy for engineering and lead engineering acceleration with AI.

Requirements

• 15+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep networking expertise.
• Experience developing networking systems at an established company and building and operating them at scale.
• Expertise in VPC/VNET, routing, DNS, load balancing, and VPN.
• Experience designing and building networking for public cloud environments, ideally AWS and/or Azure.
• Multi-cloud or inter-cloud connectivity experience is preferred.
• Experience designing networking and cloud service architecture compliant with standards such as FedRAMP and GovRAMP is preferred.
• Hands-on experience using AI engineering tools throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Proficiency in one or more systems engineering languages such as Go, C, C++, Python, or Java.
• A record of articulating and executing technical strategy.
• Strong written and verbal communication, sound decision-making, and the ability to balance technical and business objectives.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing across teams without direct authority.
• Ability to handle ambiguous, high-stakes problems and raise engineering standards.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and 401k with employer match.
• Discretionary paid time off.
• Paid parental leave for all employees.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Fitness programs and emotional and mental wellness support.
• Learning and development programs and employee resource groups.
• Office snacks.
• Seattle-based hybrid work arrangement with onsite work Tuesday through Friday and remote flexibility on Mondays, subject to approved workplace accommodations.