Senior Staff Software Engineer, Networking

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 Axon is expanding how its cloud platform runs across multiple clouds. As we grow our footprint across AWS, Azure and devices, our networking needs are getting more complex, and we are rebuilding our entire networking stack from the edge to service-to-service communications, as well as connections between clouds. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer you will be the technical leader for that work. You will set the architecture direction, make the hard trade-offs, and make sure the network underneath our products is reliable, secure, and fast enough for mission-critical use by public safety customers. You will join forces with infrastructure, platform, security, and product engineering teams to design intra and inter-cloud connectivity that the rest of Axon can build on with confidence. Your deep networking expertise, built at an established company operating networking products or infrastructure at scale, lets you see problems early and steer teams toward designs that hold up under real production load. You are a force multiplier. You raise the technical bar across the organizations, advise senior leaders on networking and cloud service strategy, and mentor the next set of technical leaders. You are comfortable with ambiguity, and you move large, cross-team initiatives forward by influencing people you do not manage. What You’ll Do 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: Vice President, Platform Services Direct Reports: N/A • Define the architecture and technical strategy for Axon's cloud networking, including connectivity between clouds • Lead the redesign of our networking stack from design through production rollout • Drive technical decisions on availability, performance, security, compliance, and cost • Provide deep technical insight in architecture and design reviews, and set a high bar for standards of excellence • Join forces with infrastructure, platform, security, and product teams to deliver complex, cross-team initiatives • Identify networking and cloud service risks early and advise engineering leadership on where to invest • Mentor and coach senior engineers and grow the next generation of technical leaders • Stay current on cloud computing technologies and bring in new approaches where they improve our systems • Set group level AI strategy for engineering, and lead by example, in engineering acceleration with AI What You Bring • 15+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep networking expertise • Networking development experience at an established company, with a track record of building and operating networking systems at scale • Expert knowledge of core networking technologies and protocols, such as VPC/VNET, routing, DNS, load balancing, and VPN • Experience designing and building networking for public cloud env