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You are expected to drive adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices across teams, ensuring scalable and efficient development workflows.\nYou will work closely with product managers and designers to ensure we are building the right solution for our customers, while also mentoring engineers on both system design and AI-first development practices.\nWhat You’ll Do\nWork Location: This role is based out of our Ho Chi Minh City office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in-person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation. We believe that connection fuels innovation, and our in-office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success.\nReports to: (Senior) Software Engineering Manager\nLead engineering architecture design reviews across multiple squads and teams, incorporating AI-driven insights and system modeling\nSet a high technical bar through code and architecture reviews across the group, including evaluation of AI-generated code and design patterns\nMentor junior to senior engineers on scalable system design, technical strategy, and AI-first development practices\nDrive adoption of AI-assisted development tools and workflows across multiple squads, establishing group-level standards and prompt engineering guidelines\nWork across teams with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to translate broad business and technical goals into engineering strategy and execution plans\nImprove engineering processes across the organization by embedding automation, AI tooling, and intelligent workflows into planning and execution\nArchitect and build services that adhere to high standards on availability and latency for broad domain capabilities in a mission-critical environment\nLeverage AI systems to optimize performance, observability, and operational efficiency across multi-team distributed systems\nWhat You Bring\nRequired Skills\nBachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field\n8+ years of professional software development experience with a proven track record of executing broad technical initiatives\nExperience designing and delivering highly-available, scalable cloud-based systems and platform components or foundational services that support multiple teams and products\nBackend service experience in multiple managed languages such as Go, Java, Scala, C#, or similar\nExperience working with SQL or NoSQL data stores and designing scalable data architectures\nExperience building and operating public cloud-hosted services on Azure or AWS using Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools\nStrong understanding of platform security concerns: identity, access control, data encryption, and secure service-to-service communication\nExperience driving SLOs, SLAs, operational excellence, and an incident response culture across multi-team engineering organizations\nExperience evaluating, integrating, and establishing organizational standards for AI-assisted development tools into engineering workflows\nStrong understanding of how AI can be applied to improve developer productivity, system design, and operational efficiency at a multi-squad level\nPreferred Qualification\nCI/CD Tools : Jenkins, GitHub Actions\nContainerization : Docker, Podman\nOrchestration Tools : Kubernetes, OpenShift\nInfrastructure as Code (IaC) : Terraform, CloudFormation\nMonitoring and Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack\nCloud Prividers : AWS (ECS, EKS), Azure DevOps, Goolge Cloud Build\nSecurity Best Practices : DevSecOps tools, vulnerability scanning\nBenefits that Benefit You\nMedical and Dental Insurance\nVision Insurance\nRobust Paid Time Off policy\nBonuses\nLunch allowance\nCell phone stipend\nFree LinkedIn Learning account and Udemy\nAccess to 24/7 online emotional and mental support\nGym membership\nFree parking\nStocked fridges and pantries - free coffee, cold beverages, snacks\nAnnual Company Outing Trip\nMonthly team social activities\nDon’t meet every single requirement? That's ok. At Axon, we Aim Far. We think big with a long-term view because we want to reinvent the world to be a safer, better place. We are also committed to building diverse teams that reflect the communities we serve.\nStudies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every box in the job description. If you’re excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification listed here, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.\nImportant Notes\nThe above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all duties, responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job. The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.\nSome roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.\nWe 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.\nAxon’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. 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