Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Axon's Platform team and contribute to solving challenging cloud infrastructure problems. You will lead the development and optimization of Axon's datastore platform, working with large-scale data and microservices. This role requires extensive experience in software development, cloud technologies, and datastore solutions. The position offers remote work flexibility with occasional on-site collaboration at one of Axon's office locations. Axon provides a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional development. Even if you don't meet every requirement, Axon encourages you to apply.

Requirements

• This position involves handling of classified federal data; under federal regulations, it is open to US Citizens only
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or relevant work experience
• 10+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience and depth designing complex systems at scale
• Experience and depth with microservice architectures and patterns
• Experience and depth with Cloud (i.e. Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.) hosted services, architectures, and patterns
• Experience and depth with observability platforms like Grafana, DataDog, or New Relic
• Experience with various relational and noSQL datastore solutions with the ability to go deep on at least one technology (e.g. MySQL, Cassandra, etc.)
• Experience and depth with queueing solutions like Kafka
• Experience and depth with IaC platforms like Terraform, Pulumi, etc

Responsibilities

• Lead coding, configuration management, and code reviews
• Lead and participate in datastore optimization and long-term choices to standardize Axon's datastore platform
• Build out an automated k8s-based platform to manage the lifecycle of datastore technologies
• Join forces with peers across Axon to facilitate application design as it relates to the consumption of datastore technologies
• Develop a platform that vends datastore solutions and promotes best-practice utilization patterns
• Partner with our application teams to troubleshoot and suggest datastore utilization optimizations

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree
• Platform automation tooling and/or developer experience tooling
• Monolith migrations to microservice architectures

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
• Remote work flexibility