Senior Security Engineer (Seattle)

Your Impact

You are excited about the care, feeding, and growth of high-availability, scalable, cloud-based systems with a strong focus on security. You will respond to and investigate escalated security incidents. You will help to create and implement sophisticated monitoring and detection techniques. We need a high-energy security professional to help expand and mature our security operations. There are plenty of challenges to conquer that require a range of security knowledge, experience, and passion.

What You’ll Do

Location: Work from home as much as you want, live nearby any of our awesome US R&D Hubs (Seattle, Scottsdale, San Francisco, Atlanta, or Boston) so you can easily collaborate in-person when it’s helpful and be an active part of our vibrant Axon culture.
Reports to: Security Operations Center Manager
Direct Reports: 0

• Design, develop, implement, and maintain tooling to improve Axon’s ability to detect and respond to security events.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to investigate and remediate escalated security events, serving as a final point of escalation for complex issues beyond routine alerts.
• Evaluate and integrate new security tools and technologies into the SOC.
• Partner with teams throughout the company to help design and build solutions that enable Axon employees to do their jobs securely.
• Write run books and occasionally draft incident reports for leadership.
• Engineer solutions to address current security attack methods and detection techniques.
• Provide input to the overall Information Security Program for enhancing the information security strategy when necessary.
• Stay current on security industry trends, attack techniques, mitigation techniques, and security technologies by attending conferences, networking with peers, and other educational opportunities.

What You Bring

• A fundamental understanding of how modern, distributed cloud-based applications function.
• Demonstrated experience in security best practices, or an interest in building and expanding that knowledge.
• Experience responding to and investigating information security events and incidents.
• 1+ year(s) of experience using SOAR and SIEM solutions.
• Fluency in development languages like Python or Go, and shell scripting (bash/powershell).
• Experience in interacting with cloud platforms like Azure and AWS via APIs.
• Working competency with GitOps.
• Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to analyze complex information to discover root causes.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher, or equivalent experience.

Benefits that Benefit You

• 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.
• And yes, we have snacks in our offices.

Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work.

The Pay: Axon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. The starting base pay for this role is between USD 127,350 in the lowest geographic market and USD 203,760 in the highest geographic market. 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 .