Axon is looking to solve the problem of connecting people, places, events, cases, and their relationships across its ecosystem to enable unified, trustworthy views of incidents, evidence, and workflows used daily by officers, investigators, and analysts.
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering experience (typically 8+ years) with proven technical leadership.
- Proficiency in one or more modern languages (e.g., Java/Kotlin, C, Go, or similar) and cloud-native service development.
- Experience designing data models for complex, interrelated domains and working with relational and NoSQL/graph stores.
- Solid systems design skills for distributed, high-throughput services.
- Clear communicator who collaborates effectively across teams.
- Security- and privacy-conscious mindset.
- Experience with knowledge graphs, entity resolution, or graph databases.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable services for entity modeling, ingestion, indexing, and query.
- Define and evolve data and schema models for interconnected records.
- Lead end-to-end projects: architecture, implementation, and delivery.
- Collaborate with product and data partners to translate requirements into technical solutions.
- Improve service reliability, testing, and observability.
- Mentor peers and contribute to engineering best practices.
Other
- Reports to: Senior Engineering Manager
- Direct Reports: None
- Work Location: Seattle office with a hybrid schedule
- Travel requirements not specified, but may be required for collaboration
- Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. degree not specified, but may be preferred
- Must be able to work in a firearms environment (for some roles)
