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Staff Software Engineer, Justice & Corrections
Axon Enterprise INC · 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 117 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 19 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Axon Enterprise INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles38 certified filings for “Senior Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in WA: $149k–$188k, median $185k. Most were filed at wage level III (41%) — 3 lottery entries, ≈46% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Axon Enterprise INC
The US Department of Labor certified 117 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 19 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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 The Justice and Corrections team is building new solutions to improve efficiency, accountability, and equity in the Criminal Justice and Corrections systems to create better outcomes for everyone involved. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Justice & Corrections team at Axon, you’ll help prosecutors, public defenders and corrections officers better manage enormous workloads. You will help ease the pain of both victims and the accused by ensuring justice is administered fairly and efficiently. And you will create tremendous benefits to communities as a whole by improving these critical systems for society. Using your experience building large-scale cloud services, you will collaborate with other Staff and Senior Engineers to shape and drive the technical direction for the team. Your strong system design skills will aid you in taking a holistic approach to ensuring our products meet high standards including fault-tolerance, scalability, performance, etc. Your customer-obsession leads you to join forces with product and design to imagine and deliver innovative solutions to key customer problems. You have a high bar on standards of excellence, and can effectively steer teams to make technical decisions that deliver highly reliable systems. You are a force multiplier, and can coach and mentor the next set of engineering leaders. You foster a friendly, open, introspective culture that encourages everyone to speak their mind and avoid red tape, unnecessary rituals, bureaucracy and politics. You embody our company value of Join Forces , and have zero tolerance for people not willing to collaborate. As a senior technical contributor, you have a passion for technology, and keep abreast of the latest trends, frameworks, and tools. As a technical leader, you advise senior leadership team (Director/Senior Director/Vice President) on technical strategy for the wider department, while balancing our business and engineering priorities to help determine the right long-term initiatives and investments. What You’ll Do Work Location: This role is based out of our Seattle office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in-person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation. We believe that connection fuels innovation, and our in-office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success. Reports to: Director of Engineering • Lead by example, drive major projects from design to production • Set a high bar on standards of excellence, provide deep technical insights during architecture design reviews • Effectively mentor and grow engineers into the Senior and Staff levels • Obsess over customers, works backward from customers to build the right solutions • Build services that adhere to high bar on availability, performance, and security in mission-critical space • Maintain curiosity and desire to stay up to speed on latest technologies and frameworks What You Bring • 15+ years’ experience in Cloud Software Engineering, and has worked with some public cloud provider like Azure, AWS, or GCP • Expertise in buildi