Senior Platform Software Engineer, Axon 911

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 ...

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.

Axon 911 brings together Prepared and Carbyne under Axon. Together, we are creating the only platform that combines modern 911 infrastructure with an AI intelligence layer—helping public safety agencies move faster, make better decisions, and deliver better outcomes in the moments that matter most.

Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure to support Prepared’s platform.
Develop and implement best practices for software development, deployment, and monitoring.
Automate repetitive tasks to enhance the efficiency and reliability of the engineering team.
Help the team implement and define SLOs and report on customer SLAs.
Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to the long-term strategy of the platform.
Mentor junior engineers and help shape the engineering culture within the team.
Travel occasionally to support customer deployments and onsite implementations
5+ years of software engineering industry experience.
Proven capacity to operate in a platform engineering or similar role.
Experience with large-scale distributed systems.
Desire to work in a fast-paced and dynamic startup environment.
Strong knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or Crossplane.
Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and tools like Github Actions, Drone CI, or Gitlab CI.
Proficiency in or eagerness to learn our backend stack (RoR, Go).
Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools and standards such as OpenTelemetry, Datadog, and the LGTM stack.
Strong communication skills and a love for both producing and consuming documentation.
Our team is leaning into agentic software development workflows, and we’re looking for engineers who have experimented with—or are enthusiastic about embracing—AI-augmented ways of building software.
Experience in an early-stage startup.
Knowledge of security and compliance best practices and experience implementing them in a fast-moving environment.
Expertise in Ruby on Rails, Golang, and/or IaC tools.