Senior Staff Software Development Engineer

Dexcom

Remote Senior Staff Software Engineer at Dexcom developing cloud-native, AI-augmented platform capabilities for health technology. Collaborating with AI Platform Engineers to deliver scalable backend services.

Posted 5/30/2026full-timeRemote • California, Illinois, Oregon, Texas, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $156,400 - $260,600 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformKafkaKotlinPythonShell ScriptingSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and maintain cloud-based backend systems—including APIs, event-driven services, and data pipelines
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

What you’ll need

Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline
A minimum of 13+ years related experience or a Master’s degree and 8+ years equivalent industry experience or a PhD and 5+ years of experience
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

Benefits

Comp & perks

A full and comprehensive benefits program
Growth opportunities on a global scale
Access to career development through in-house learning programs and/or qualified tuition reimbursement
An exciting and innovative, industry-leading organization committed to our employees, customers, and the communities we serve

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonKotlinshell scriptingcloud-native backend servicesGCPPub/SubKafkaFirestoreCloud SQLDocker

Soft Skills

ability to learn new technologies quicklythrive in fast-moving engineering environmentmanage shifting prioritieshandle multiple simultaneous projects

Certifications

Bachelor’s degreeMaster’s degreePhD