Job brief: Software Engineering Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering

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• Listed on Axon's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-11 (today); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-11.
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• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $150,000 to $240,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Sterling, Virginia, United States · Virginia-Sterling Office
• Posted: 2026-11-11

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Manager. The title says "Manager".

Must have

• 5+ years of software development experience, or an equivalent engineering background
• 2+ years in an engineering leadership role, hiring, managing, and developing engineers
• Don’t meet every single requirement? That's ok.
• All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental, health, and safety regulations, policies, and procedures.

Conditions

• Travel to customer sites and events when the work needs it.
• Our benefits offer an array of options to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life.

Main duties

• Lead a team that resolves live site problems with customers and installers as they come in, and plan its workload and its place on the engineering on-call rota.
• Drive field escalations to resolution with product engineering teams, and make sure each root cause is fixed in the product.
• Own and improve the runbooks, checklists, and acceptance tests that make deployments repeatable.
• Work with sales, services, and support teams on customer deployments.

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for software engineer jobs in Virginia: $155k a year (5 listings, 4 employers). This listing is 26% higher.
• Across Axon's 394 open listings, 52% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Axon hires

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