24 hours ago
Base Salary
$156k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, and evolution of scalable cloud-native backend platforms, APIs, event-driven services, and data systems.
- Drive technical strategy, architectural decisions, technology adoption, platform investments, and modernization across multiple teams.
- Establish standards and workflows for AI-assisted software development to improve engineering velocity, quality, and developer productivity.
- Lead software lifecycle activities including solution design, implementation, automated testing, performance optimization, security, observability, deployment, and operational readiness.
- Design and optimize distributed systems using Google Cloud Platform services including Firestore, Cloud SQL, and Pub/Sub.
- Partner with Product, Architecture, Security, SRE, Data, and Engineering leaders on roadmaps and cross-functional initiatives.
- Drive improvements in developer experience, CI/CD automation, observability, resiliency, and cloud cost optimization.
- Provide technical leadership during production incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.
- Mentor and coach senior engineers and raise engineering standards across the organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline and 13+ years of related experience, or a master’s degree and 8+ years of equivalent industry experience, or a PhD and 5+ years of experience.
- Extensive experience architecting and delivering large-scale distributed cloud-native systems.
- Deep backend development expertise using Python and Kotlin for highly available, mission-critical applications.
- Experience designing scalable event-driven architectures using Pub/Sub, Kafka, or equivalent messaging and streaming platforms.
- Strong experience building data-intensive services with Firestore, Cloud SQL, and other cloud-native persistence technologies.
- Expertise with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform, including security, reliability, observability, and cost optimization.
- Ability to lead technical strategy and influence architectural decisions across teams, organizations, and product areas.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Experience driving adoption of AI-assisted development tools and workflows while maintaining software quality, security, and maintainability.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, stakeholder management, mentoring, and technical leadership abilities.
Benefits
- Remote home-office workplace; hybrid work may be available for employees within commuting distance of a Dexcom site, with a Flex workplace option.
- Comprehensive benefits program.
- Global growth opportunities.
- Career development through in-house learning programs and/or qualified tuition reimbursement.
- Travel required is 0–5%.
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About Dexcom
Dexcom designs and manufactures continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems for people with diabetes, combining wearable sensors with transmitters, mobile apps, and cloud data services. It sells devices and disposable sensors through pharmacies, durable medical equipment channels, and healthcare providers, often covered by insurance. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Diego, Dexcom is a public company traded on NASDAQ (DXCM).