Staff SW Development Engineer

Dexcom is a global leader in continuous glucose monitoring and health technology. The Staff Software Development Engineer will build and maintain cloud-native backend systems, APIs, event-driven services, and data pipelines supporting AI-powered platform capabilities, while improving reliability, observability, security, and development efficiency in a regulated medical technology environment.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain cloud‑based backend systems—including APIs, event‑driven services, and data pipelines—using AI‑assisted development workflows to increase speed and quality
• Work across the full software lifecycle: architecture, design, implementation, automated testing, performance tuning, documentation, and verification
• Develop and integrate services with Firestore, Cloud SQL, and other GCP‑native components
• Improve engineering processes through automation, developer‑efficiency enhancements, monitoring/observability improvements, and cost‑optimization initiatives
• Participate in code reviews and champion best practices in API design, security, testing, DevOps, and cloud architecture
• Learn and maintain existing internal applications, modernizing and refactoring where appropriate
• Diagnose and resolve issues alongside QA and SRE teams across lower environments and production
• Use GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, and JIRA to manage development and releases
• Participate in on‑call rotations as required

Requirements:

• Strong programming skills in Python, Kotlin, and shell scripting
• Experience building distributed, cloud‑native backend services on GCP
• Hands‑on experience with Pub/Sub and Kafka for messaging and streaming
• Proficiency with Firestore and Cloud SQL for data persistence and querying
• Experience building and deploying services using Docker and container‑based environments
• Familiarity with automated testing frameworks and modern CI/CD pipelines
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly—especially AI‑assisted development tools
• Ability to thrive in a fast‑moving engineering environment with shifting priorities and multiple simultaneous projects
• 0-5%
• Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline, and a minimum of 8-12 years related experience or Master's degree and 5-7 years equivalent industry experience or a PhD and 2-4 years of experience
• 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)