Staff Software Development Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Design, construct, and sustain cloud-based backend systems, which encompass APIs, event-driven services, and data pipelines.

• Engage throughout the complete software lifecycle: architecture, design, implementation, automated testing, performance tuning, documentation, and verification.

• Create and integrate services with Firestore, Cloud SQL, and other components native to GCP.

• Enhance engineering workflows via automation, improvements in developer efficiency, monitoring/observability advancements, and initiatives for cost optimization.

• Take part in code reviews and advocate for best practices in API design, security, testing, DevOps, and cloud architecture.

• Acquire knowledge and maintain existing internal applications, modernizing and refactoring as needed.

• Identify and resolve issues in collaboration with QA and SRE teams across both lower environments and production.

• Utilize GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, and JIRA for managing development and release processes.

• Participate in on-call rotations as necessary.

• Develop next-generation cloud-native, data-driven, and AI-enhanced platform capabilities for Dexcom’s continuous glucose monitoring technology.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong programming expertise in Python, Kotlin, and shell scripting.

• Proven experience in building distributed, cloud-native backend services on GCP.

• Practical experience with Pub/Sub and Kafka for messaging and streaming.

• Proficiency in using Firestore and Cloud SQL for data persistence and querying.

• Experience in building and deploying services within Docker and containerized environments.

• Familiarity with automated testing frameworks and contemporary CI/CD pipelines.

• Demonstrated capability to quickly learn new technologies, particularly AI-assisted development tools.

• Ability to excel in a dynamic engineering environment with changing priorities and multiple concurrent projects.

• Generally requires a Bachelor’s degree in a technical field and 8–12 years of related experience, or a Master’s degree and 5–7 years of equivalent industry experience, or a PhD and 2–4 years of experience.

• Travel required: 0–5%.

🏝️ Benefits

• A comprehensive and extensive benefits program.

• Opportunities for growth on a global scale.

• Access to career development through internal learning programs and/or qualified tuition reimbursement.

• Home office workplace flexibility.

• Flexible workplace options may be available for employees within commuting distance of a Dexcom location.