Senior Software Engineer, Axon Foundation Services
Our mission is to protect life.
We’re out to make the world a safer place by solving big problems and taking on the public safety challenges of our time. From our company's inception building the TASER device to a full suite of hardware and software solutions, we are focused on providing police agencies with state-of-the-art devices and services they need to successfully serve and protect us. In the next few years, we're going to eliminate the burden of paperwork in policing, so officers can increase the time they spend building relationships and serving in their communities. We’ll put video at the heart of police records so our justice system can get to the truth faster. And we won't stop innovating until the bullet is rendered obsolete.
It’s a big mission, but it’s one we’ll pursue relentlessly every single day.
Location: Seattle, WA
Our team
In the Platform team, we are solving some of the hardest cloud challenges today. We provide the underlying system that ingests tens of petabytes of video from hundreds of thousands of officers around the world. We ensure that these videos are uploaded accurately, stored safely and permanently, and with audit-logging to track chain of custody and use. We also handle a growing set of other types of evidence: audio, photographs, sensor streams, you name it. We are one of the world’s largest customers of Blob storage.
We are now at the ‘knee of the curve’, as we are transitioning to industrial-strength reliability and modern cloud software offerings. If you enjoy working on large-scale projects, and collaboratively leading and setting the technical direction of a team, this role is for you.
Your Impact:
You are a Senior Software Engineer with experience building large-scale software applications. You have developed strong mastery and interested in backend technologies and are capable of connecting frontend solutions to them. You are excited about the care, feeding and growth of a high-availability, scalable cloud-based systems.
Come work in an exciting environment where you use your passion, experience, and analytical skills to help bring new solutions to public safety and leave a positive impact on the world.
Your Day-to-Day:
- Perform design, code, and process reviews to improve individual systems as well as engineering-wide
- Tackle the difficult problems we face in a long term sustainable manner
- Help make our team better by contributing to design and launch reviews for new services
- Advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and efficiency
- Investigate new ways to continually improve and automate all aspects of what we do
- Engage early with teams on new products and services design to ensure that they are using a good set of datastores, in a good way.
Basic Qualifications:
- Degree in Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, AI, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering
- Backend service experience in managed languages such as Java, Scala, Go, C#, or similar
- Exceptional and energetic collaborator within and across the teams.
- Experience developing systems that are reliable, highly available, secure, low latency, and maintainable.
- Ability to pragmatically make tough technical decisions based on requirements, constraints, and trade-offs.
- Excellent technical leadership skills.
- Experience with relational databases
Preferred Qualifications:
- You enjoy mentoring and growing junior engineers
- Experience with container-based platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Microsoft Azure Cloud experience
Compensation and Benefits:
- Competitive salary and 401K with employer match
- Discretionary paid time off
- Robust parental leave policy
- An award-winning office/working environment
- Ride along with police officers to see them use our technology and get inspired
- And more...
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.