Dexcom
Sr Staff SW Development Engineer
Remote - United States · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$156k-$261kDetected 7 days ago
PythonKotlinDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentSQLGCPCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesCI/CDSite Reliability EngineeringKafkaStakeholder ManagementRecruitingTest AutomationFDA RegulatoryLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingMentoring
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Lottery odds (Level IV)94
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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
- 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 of 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
- $156,400.00 - $260,600.00
Benefits
- A full and comprehensive benefits program.
- Access to career development through in-house learning programs and/or qualified tuition reimbursement.
- Experience and Education Requirements:
- Remote Workplace: 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
- Lead the architecture, design, and evolution of highly scalable cloud-native backend platforms, APIs, event-driven services, and data systems powering critical business and product capabilities.
- Drive technical strategy and engineering excellence across multiple teams, influencing architectural decisions, technology adoption, and long-term platform investments.
- Champion AI-assisted software development practices, establishing standards, workflows, and best practices that improve engineering velocity, code quality, and developer productivity.
- Provide technical leadership throughout the software lifecycle, including solution design, implementation, automated testing, performance optimization, security, observability, deployment, and operational readiness.
- Design and optimize distributed systems leveraging GCP services such as Firestore, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, and other cloud-native technologies to ensure scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Partner closely with Product, Architecture, Security, SRE, Data, and Engineering leaders to define technical roadmaps, resolve complex cross-functional challenges, and deliver strategic initiatives.
- Lead modernization efforts for legacy platforms and services, driving simplification, maintainability, and operational excellence across the ecosystem.
- Mentor and coach senior engineers, fostering technical growth, promoting engineering best practices, and raising the technical bar across the organization.
- Drive continuous improvements in developer experience, CI/CD automation, system observability, resiliency, and cloud cost optimization.
- Provide technical leadership during production incidents and critical escalations, leading root cause analysis and ensuring long-term corrective actions.
- Extensive experience architecting and delivering large-scale distributed cloud-native systems.
- Deep expertise in backend development using Python, Kotlin, and modern software engineering practices for highly available, mission-critical applications.
- Proven track record designing scalable event-driven architectures using technologies such as Pub/Sub, Kafka, or equivalent messaging and streaming platforms.
- Strong experience building data-intensive services utilizing Firestore, Cloud SQL, and other cloud-native persistence technologies.
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.
- If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact Dexcom Talent Acquisition at talentacquisition@dexcom.com.
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