Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise

Your Impact

You are a Staff Software Engineer who thrives at the intersection of technical leadership, rapid product discovery, and customer obsession. On Enterprise, you’ll help Axon identify and prove new product-market fit by building high-leverage proof-of-concepts with real customer workflows, then laying the technical foundation to evolve the best concepts into secure, scalable, production-ready products across the Axon ecosystem. You bring strong system design judgment and an outcomes-first mindset: you know when to move fast with a prototype, how to design experiments that de-risk big bets, and how to translate learnings into durable architectures teams can build on.

What You’ll Do

• Lead technical discovery for new enterprise product concepts: translate ambiguous customer problems into shippable prototypes and measurable experiments
• Build proofs-of-concept that integrate with and build on top of the Axon ecosystem (platform services, identity/access, data, workflows, integrations, hardware)
• Partner closely with Product Management, Design, and customer development partners to validate value, usability, and feasibility
• Establish architectural direction for concepts that graduate from POC to product—defining target-state designs, key technical decisions, and migration paths
• Set a high bar for security, reliability, privacy, performance, and maintainability appropriate for mission-critical enterprise environments
• Drive cross-team technical alignment: influence APIs, platform capabilities, data contracts, observability standards, and operational readiness
• Mentor engineers and model strong engineering practices (design docs, iterative delivery, pragmatic testing, incident learnings, and effective reviews)

What You Bring

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent)
• Proven ability to lead technical efforts across teams—aligning stakeholders, driving architecture decisions, and delivering outcomes
• Strong system design skills: you can design for scale, availability, operability, and security—and explain tradeoffs clearly
• Experience building high-availability, scalable cloud-based systems (microservices/event-driven systems)
• Experience integrating with external software systems
• Strong collaboration skills with Product and Design; comfortable working from ambiguous requirements and iterating quickly with customer feedback
• A track record of improving engineering effectiveness through mentorship, technical standards, and pragmatic process improvements

Nice to Have

• Experience building enterprise B2B products, especially in regulated / high-trust environments (security, compliance, privacy, auditability)
• Experience with identity, authentication/authorization, multi-tenant architectures, and customer-managed configurations
• Experience with data platforms (streaming, analytics, search), integrations, or workflow automation
• Experience with architecting workflows that span devices and cloud (firmware, edge components, secure networking, ingestion/streaming, and cloud orchestration)
• Hands-on expertise in observability, reliability engineering, and operational excellence (SLOs, on-call readiness, incident response)

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
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
• And yes, we have snacks in our offices