Staff Software Development Engineer

Dexcom

Staff SW Development Engineer at Dexcom developing cloud-native, data-driven, AI-augmented platform capabilities. Collaborating with AI Platform Engineers on scalable backend services, APIs, and infrastructure.

Posted 7/7/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $135,100 - $225,100 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—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

What you’ll need

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonKotlinShell ScriptingCloud SQLFirestorePub/SubKafkaDockerCI/CD PipelinesAPI Design

Soft Skills

AdaptabilityProblem-SolvingCollaboration