Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise

Join Axon and be a Force for Good. At Axon, we’re on a mission to Protect Life. We’re explorers, pursuing society’s most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products, we work better together. We connect with candor and care, seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers, communities and each other. Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you’ll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter. 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. You’re a force multiplier—raising the technical bar through design reviews, mentoring, and cross-team alignment—and you partner deeply with Product M [... source excerpt omitted ...] meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success. Reports to: Director, Software Engineering 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 mig [... source excerpt omitted ...] 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, an