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Embedded software automation Engineer
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 As a senior engineer on Axon’s Connected Devices Cloud team, you will drive the architecture and evolution of cloud services that power the next generation of connected devices for first responders. You live and breathe highly-available, low-latency systems and excel at turning complex, data-intensive challenges into elegant, reliable solutions. Your technical leadership will influence multiple teams, and your passion for our mission will shape products that truly matter in the field. You love working with the latest open source technologies, and can leverage your system design skills to make the right technical decisions on a system that needs to be bullet-proof. Not only can you drive decisions among competing engineering trade-offs, your empathy with customers allows you to intuit innovative solutions for our customer problems. You will be working closely with product managers and designers to ensure we are building the right solution for our customers. You also enjoy mentoring other engineers, and love to be a hands-on teacher helping to up level the engineers around you. Join us to work with a passionate, mission-driven group of folks who want to positively impact the lives of first responders and those that they serve. What You’ll Do Location: Seattle, WA Reports to: Engineering Manager Direct reports: 0 • Lead system design & architecture for large-scale, Kubernetes-based services, owning decisions on deployment patterns, auto-scaling, resource orchestration, and operational automation. • Set the technical bar : write well-tested, maintainable code; conduct rigorous code and design reviews; and champion engineering best practices across Axon. • Guide cross-team initiatives: facilitating design/spec reviews, mentoring engineers, and driving pillar-wide improvements in reliability, performance, and operational efficiency. • Own availability & performance : shape service capacity planning, resource tuning (CPU/memory), SLO/SLA definition, and resilience patterns for mission-critical workloads. • Advance our DevOps stack : evolve secure, repeatable CI/CD pipelines with ArgoCD, Terraform, and Kubernetes; and integrate robust observability. • Collaborate deeply with Product, Design, and partner engineering groups to craft integrated solutions that delight customers in public safety and beyond. • Act as a culture carrier: model growth mindset, inclusive collaboration, and relentless pursuit of Axon’s mission to Protect Life, while leveraging modern AI tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and ChatGPT to accelerate development workflows, enhance productivity, and support decision‑making, documentation, and problem‑solving. What You Bring Required Skills • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. • 6+ years designing, building, and operating distributed, highly-available cloud systems. • Proven mastery of backend service development in managed languages such as Go, Java, Scala, or C#. • Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and at least one IaC tool (Terraform preferred). • Deep knowledge of SQL and/or NoSQL datastores and data-intensive system patterns. • Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction acr