Dexcom
Sr. Staff Cyber Defense Engineer
Remote - United States · Staff+
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About the role
- The Company Dexcom Corporation (NASDAQ DXCM) is a pioneer and global leader in continuous glucose monitoring (CGM).
- Dexcom began as a small company with a big dream: To forever change how diabetes is managed.
- That means personalized, actionable insights aimed at solving important health challenges.
Responsibilities
- Access to in-house training, development programs, career mentorship, and opportunities to attend security conferences to support your professional growth.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Requirements
- Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline, and a minimum of 13+ years related experience or a Master's degree and 8+ years equivalent industry experience or a PhD and 5+ years of experience.
- you are not required to live within commuting distance of your assigned Dexcom site (typically 75 miles/120km).
- Travel Required:
Compensation
- $181,000.00 - $301,600.00
Benefits
- A full and comprehensive benefits program, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, and wellness programs.
- Work-life balance support through flexible work arrangements and unlimited paid time off.
- Experience and Education Requirements:
- Your location will be a home office; you are not required to live within commuting distance of your assigned Dexcom site (typically 75 miles/120km).
Company info
- You influence the technical strategy and roadmap for Enterprise Cyber Defense capabilities, aligned to business risk, the threat landscape, and Information Security priorities.
- You serve as a technical authority for cyber defense architecture, establishing design principles, telemetry standards, integration patterns, and engineering practices across cyber defense platforms and data sources.
- You own the enterprise detection engineering lifecycle, including detection logic, correlation rules, use cases, telemetry requirements, validation, tuning, and measurable efficacy across environments.
- You design and engineer cyber defense capabilities, including advanced detections, telemetry integrations, SOAR workflows, and agentic response patterns with appropriate human oversight.
- You lead major cross-functional cyber defense initiatives and technology transformations, resolving complex dependencies, technical tradeoffs, and sequencing decisions.
- You provide senior technical leadership during the most complex cyber incidents and emerging or non-traditional risk scenarios, driving root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and durable defensive improvements.
- You define the technical approach for threat hunting and adversary validation, using threat intelligence, red and purple team findings, incident lessons, and simulations to improve defenses.
- You drive cyber readiness engineering through technical exercises, playbook validation, escalation testing, and the identification and remediation of systemic defense gaps.
- You translate technical risk for senior leaders and mentor engineers and analysts to strengthen technical maturity.
- You have demonstrated success leading complex cyber defense initiatives across organizational boundaries.
- You bring deep expertise with SIEM, SOAR, XDR/EDR, NDR, identity and email telemetry, and cloud security technologies in large-scale cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
- You have a strong engineering background in detection logic, automation, telemetry pipelines, API integrations, or security tooling using Python, PowerShell, SPL, KQL, SQL, or similar technologies.
- You have deep knowledge of adversary behaviors, threat hunting, incident response, digital forensics fundamentals, detection engineering, cyber threat intelligence, and MITRE ATT&CK.
- You have experience applying AI or machine-learning capabilities to detection, investigation, or automated response, including performance measurement and appropriate human oversight.
Equal opportunity
- The duties and responsibilities in this job description may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons.
- An Equal Opportunity Employer.
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