Senior Software Engineer I - Streaming

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 Interview is an on-prem digital evidence management solution with cloud-integration designed for law enforcement agencies. It streamlines the process of capturing, storing, and managing interview recordings while ensuring security, compliance, and ease of access for investigators and legal teams.

As a senior member on the team, you will make key design decisions that will shape our newest products. You will get to work on a platform that offers law enforcement administrators and crime analysts flexible access to key interview data. You will play a pivotal role in elevating the team's capability to deliver state-of-the-art audio/video streaming solutions. By leveraging your expertise, you will contribute to the development of innovative and scalable streaming service that enhances product offerings and drives business growth into new markets. Your work will ensure reliable, secure, and high-quality evidence to preserve truth and directly impact user satisfaction

Our Axon Interview product is growing rapidly and has tripled in sales over the past three years with a footprint in major, well-known agencies. We are looking for someone to help scale the quality of the Enterprise grade application. We need engineers who can take Axon Interview to the next level and make it scalable, reliable and even more secure! You will get to broaden the product reach as we expand integration with other Axon products.

Axon has led the global effort to protect life through conductive energy weapons, body cameras, a number of real-time sensors, public safety software products and AI tools. Axon is uniquely positioned to tie together every aspect of an incident in order to help law enforcement agencies better prepare for what might happen, respond efficiently and effectively, deliver justice, ensure the well-being of their officers, and increase the safety of their communities. Working together with our customers and product teams, you will build the foundation for Axon’s outcome-oriented data efforts.

What You’ll Do 

Location: Onsite or Work Remotely from home as much as you want, be based out of either Seattle, WA or Scottsdale, AZ local hubs
Reports to: Software Engineering Manager

• Design, develop, and maintain a high-performance streaming engine service for Windows and (eventually) Linux that processes audio and video feeds from IP/USB cameras, ensuring efficient recording and playback capabilities.
• Implement scalable and secure solutions for restreaming live audio/video data to various applications.
• Optimize memory management and system resources for handling large-scale streaming workloads.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to co-develop the streaming service that can be integrated with other software applications and systems.
• Develop and maintain support for industry-standard streaming protocols, including real-time protocol and data encryption.
• Perform design and code reviews, provide guidance to junior engineers, create team level documentation
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to video/audio feed processing, stream reliability, and overall system performance.

What You Bring

• Proven experience in developing and maintaining audio/video streaming services or related software.
• Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Go, C++, Rust, .NET, and/or Java.
• Deep understanding of audio and video streaming protocols (e.g., RTSP, RTMP, HLS, SRTP/RTSP) and encryption standards (e.g., SSL/TLS).
• Knowledge of industry standards for audio/video codecs (e.g., H264, H265, fMP4, AAC, G711) and compression techniques .
• Hands-on experience with tools and libraries such as GStreamer, ffmpeg, etc.
• Solid knowledge of system-level programming, including memory management and performance optimization.
• Exceptional problem-solving abilities with a proven history of creating scalable, maintainable software that is designed for observability.

Benefits that Benefit You

• Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
• Discretionary paid time off
• Paid parental leave for a