Software Engineering Manager, Cloud Networking

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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 Software Engineering Manager of the CloudNet team in the APX platform engineering organization on the CloudNet team, you are passionate about delivering solutions to the real-time problems our mission-critical cloud native services encounter. You are also obsessed about achieving the high quality and reliability our customers demand. You will work closely with sovereign operations teams that operate Axon systems around the world, and your technical influence will extend to the entire engineering organization because every team needs guidance situating their product in the larger networking reality of the overall Axon ecosystem. You lead a team of networking software engineers that are experts in building complex and maintaining the complex and impactful foundational networking layer. You like keeping your hands in the code to keep your technical skills sharp. You enjoy mentoring and growing junior and mid-level engineers on a productive and fulfilling career path at Axon.

What You’ll Do 

Location: Seattle - preferred
Reports to: Senior Software Engineering Manager
Direct Reports: 8 Software and Network Engineers

• Driving the execution of your team by leading planning, prioritization, stand-ups, and team retro meetings
• Leading the technical direction of the team through architectural discussions and code reviews
• Working with technical program managers, senior engineers, and client teams to deliver on the foundational networking aspects of company programs that cut across all product organizations.
• Join forces with recruiting to hire a top-notch engineering team
• Managing engineers and their careers with 1:1s and performance reviews
• Execute and deliver new features and improvements to internal customers on a regular basis
• Coaching your team for continuous improvements
• Sample of responsibilities:
  Lead Axon’s journey into Istio service mesh applications that are still in their infancy at Axon but form the foundation of Axon’s future strategy to scale over the next few years.
  Automate routine maintenance of the cloud platform with minimal downtime (4x9s availability). Example: TLS certificate management and automation is a sprawling responsibility in large systems, a mine-field of potential unforced errors that can impact availability
  Advance new features while simultaneously stewarding existing system components subject to strict regulatory regimes like FedRAMP, managing vulnerabilities with timely precision.
  CDN and DDOS strategy for the public edge
  Ingress performance, at the public edge and also at the entrypoint to Kubernetes clusters
  Performant and highly available VPNs between cross-cloud architectures

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or an equivalent highly technical field
• 4+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering
• 3+ years of experience managing software engineers
• A track record of planning and delivering on multiple overlapping projects spanning several months
• Experience implementing an engineering process that emphasizes security, availability, scalability, and operational discipline
• Experience either directly managing networking concerns or a demonstrated interest in networking concerns

Benefits that Benefit You

• Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
• Discretionary paid time off
• Paid parental leave for all
• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Fitness Programs
• Emotional & Mental Wellness support
• Learning & Development programs
• And yes, we have snacks in our offices

Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work.

The Pay: Axon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. The starting base pay for this role is between USD 144,000 in the lowest geographic market and USD 230,400 in the highest geographic market. The