2 hours ago
Base Salary
$190k - $317k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide architectural direction for strategic server-side, backend, and cloud platform decisions.
- Define architectures for distributed services, APIs, data pipelines, event-driven systems, integrations, and shared platform capabilities.
- Translate customer, product, business, regulatory, security, privacy, and operational needs into platform requirements and architecture patterns.
- Define service boundaries, domain models, API contracts, integration patterns, data ownership, and platform interfaces.
- Lead architecture reviews, proofs of concept, technical evaluations, modeling, prototyping, and technology down-selection.
- Establish engineering standards for service development, API design, cloud infrastructure, data management, deployment, configuration, and system integration.
- Partner with cybersecurity and privacy teams on identity and access management, encryption, secrets management, auditability, threat modeling, and secure-by-design practices.
- Guide capacity planning, performance engineering, reliability testing, disaster recovery, business continuity, and integration testing.
- Define observability practices including logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, service-level objectives, and production health monitoring.
- Collaborate with DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, and infrastructure teams to improve deployment automation, environment consistency, operational readiness, and incident response.
- Communicate architectural decisions, risks, alternatives, and recommendations to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Maintain architecture documentation, decision records, interface specifications, system diagrams, and technical roadmaps.
- Mentor engineers and architects and provide technical leadership on complex platform initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline and 15+ years of related experience, or a Master’s degree and 10+ years of equivalent industry experience, or a PhD and 7+ years of experience.
- Deep experience architecting and delivering large-scale server-side, backend, or cloud-native platforms.
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems, microservices, service-oriented architectures, event-driven systems, and asynchronous processing.
- Experience designing REST, gRPC, event-based, or similar service interfaces, including versioning and backward compatibility.
- Strong understanding of relational and non-relational databases, caching, messaging, streaming, data consistency, and data lifecycle management.
- Experience with public-cloud services, containerized workloads, infrastructure as code, continuous delivery, and modern platform engineering practices.
- Demonstrated ability to design highly available, fault-tolerant, observable, secure, and cost-effective production systems.
- Experience with authentication, authorization, data protection, privacy, threat modeling, and secure software development.
- Ability to connect business and product objectives to pragmatic technical strategies and architectural roadmaps.
- Strong systems thinking and ability to manage complex dependencies and tradeoffs across multiple teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including influencing stakeholders without direct authority.
- Experience in a regulated industry, particularly medical devices, healthcare, or digital health, is strongly preferred.
Benefits
- Full and comprehensive benefits program.
- Global growth opportunities and access to in-house career development programs and/or qualified tuition reimbursement.
- Remote home-office workplace; candidates within approximately 75 miles/120 km of a Dexcom site may have hybrid flexibility, with a Flex workplace option available.
- Travel requirement is 0–5%.
- Opportunity to work on life-changing continuous glucose monitoring technology in an innovative, industry-leading organization.
Tech Stack
gRPC
Categories
About Dexcom
Empowering People to Take Control of Health Dexcom Corporation (NASDAQ DXCM) has been a pioneer in glucose sensing for more than 25 years. Since 1999, we have developed innovative technologies that transformed how people manage diabetes. Our products are part of people’s daily lives, empowering them to live confidently and feel more in control, free to pursue their dreams. Headquartered in San Diego, California, with operations around the world, Dexcom leads by listening to the needs of users, caregivers, and providers, to simplify and improve glucose management.