Engineering Director

About the role

The Director of Software Engineering will lead multiple engineering teams within the Real-Time Operations portfolio to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable software for public safety and enterprise customers. This role involves owning technical direction, engineering execution, and talent development while partnering with product and design teams to translate priorities into measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop multiple software engineering teams, setting clear expectations for technical quality, delivery and team performance.
• Partner with Product and Design to define roadmaps, sequence investments and make informed trade-offs between new capabilities, platform improvements and technical debt.
• Guide architecture and system-design decisions across your area, engaging directly with engineers on complex technical challenges.
• Build engineering practices that strengthen testing, code review, CI/CD, observability and deployment confidence.
• Own the operational health of your services, using incidents and customer feedback to drive lasting improvements.
• Hire, coach and develop engineering managers, technical leads and engineers; address performance issues with clarity and candour.
• Collaborate across Axon to deliver integrated experiences and resolve dependencies between teams.
• Work with Security, Privacy and Compliance partners to embed customer and regulatory requirements into engineering decisions.

Required skills

• Distributed systems
• Cloud services
• Software architecture
• Engineering leadership
• System design

Nice to have

• Real-time systems
• Video streaming
• IoT
• Device-to-cloud architectures
• Enterprise security
• Platform modernisation

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• RSUs
• Comprehensive pension plan
• Private health insurance
• 30 days paid holiday
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
• GymPass subscription
• Life assurance
• Income protection

About the Company

Axon is on a mission to Protect Life by building technology that gives first responders, enterprises and communities the clarity to act in the moments that matter most. Their Real-Time Operations portfolio, powered by Fusus, transforms how public safety and security organisations detect, assess and respond to incidents.