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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Axon Enterprise, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $141,000.0 - $216,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software Quality, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Uptime, Systems Development Life Cycle, Software Engineering, Video Editing, WebRTC, Real Time Systems, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Low Latency, Webforms
- **Published:** September 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/3356611e-3d38-469d-aa4b-fd6022a81f24

## About the Role

* 5+ years of software engineering experience, including designing, building, and operating complex production systems.
 * Hands-on experience developing real-time communication platforms or other low-latency, real-time systems.
 * Strong understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
 * Proven experience building highly available, fault-tolerant, and resilient services at scale.
 * Expertise in reliability patterns such as redundancy, failover, graceful degradation, recovery, and observability.
 * Demonstrated technical ownership of business-critical systems in which performance, uptime, and reliability are essential.
 * Experience adopting and effectively integrating AI-assisted development tools throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to improve engineering productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, and delivery

## Description

You'll work on a small team building high-performance, mission-critical devices with low-latency communication requirements. Axon has a portfolio of robust imaging and communication products that help law enforcement do their jobs and keep people safe every day. In this role, you will tackle challenging engineering problems in spaces like audio/video processing and generative AI to bring new features and products from inception to scale, thoughtfully balancing speed and the high bar for stability necessitated by the mission-critical nature of our products.

 * Collaborate cross-functionally to architect and launch new user-facing features and products
 * Design and drive initiatives to improve the availability and reliability of our backend systems
 * Continuously help improve the engineering processes and tools that allow us to scale the codebase and team
 * Provide mentorship to less experienced engineers
 * Travel occasionally to support customer deployments and onsite implementations, We collect personal information from applicants to evaluate candidates for employment. You may request access, deletion, or exercise other CCPA rights at or via our Axon Privacy Web Form. For more information, please see the Your California Privacy Rights section of our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.

Axon's mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being and safety of its employees as well as Axon's impact on the environment. All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental, health, and safety regulations, policies, and procedures. Axon employees are empowered to report safety concerns as they arise and activities potentially impacting the environment.


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