About Dexcom
Founded in 1999, Dexcom, Inc. (NASDAQ: DXCM), develops and markets Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) systems for ambulatory use by people with diabetes and by healthcare providers for the treatment of people with diabetes. The company is the leader in transforming diabetes care and management by providing CGM technology to help patients and healthcare professionals better manage diabetes. Since the company’s inception, Dexcom has focused on better outcomes for patients, caregivers, and clinicians by delivering solutions that are best in class – while empowering the community to take control of diabetes. Dexcom reported full-year 2022 revenues of $2.9B, a growth of 18% over 2021. Headquartered in San Diego, California, with additional offices in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the company employs over 8,000 people worldwide.
Meet the team:
We are hiring for a Senior Staff Software Engineer in our San Diego, CA office. In this role, you will be a key contributor to the Data and Insights Service team and the larger Dexcom Software and Data Organization. You will work with Data Platform Engineers to build the infrastructure to support our data pipelines, storage, and API through which reliable, clean, meaningful data is provided to internal and external stakeholders.
At Dexcom, you can use your software and data engineering skills for the greater good. We develop software for medical devices and systems. Our software quality standards conform to the rigorous requirements of regulatory agencies such as ISO and FDA. If you enjoy connecting the dots, using data-driven engineering decisions, innovating through the server side of our entire platform stack, you’ll enjoy this job.
Where you come in:
- Develop cloud-based software systems (APIs and Data pipelines) as part of a multi-disciplinary team that works with in an Agile methodology environment
- Lead software development across the development lifecycle – starting from product concept and requirements definition, through software design and architecture, code development, functional and performance testing, documentation and design verification
- Identify, champion and work to implement improvements in internal processes including automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, optimizing software infrastructure for better scalability, maintainability, cost efficiency, etc.
- Lead code reviews and champion best practices for quality control, software testing and code development and deployment in an agile environment
- Work with others to develop a good understanding of the design, architecture, and coding of existing internally developed applications and services
- Support diagnosing and resolving bugs during end-to-end testing and in production
- Manage code via GitHub or GitLab and create and track tasks using tools such as JIRA
- Participate in on-call rotation for backend application and services when required
- Protect the confidentiality and security of client data
What makes you successful:
- Strong programming skills – Java, Kotlin, Scala and Apache Beam
- Experience with message brokers, queues, buses like Kafka, Azure service bus, ZeroMQ, etc.
- Experience with NoSql databases like Cassandra
- Experience with Dataflow, Spark, and Airflow
- Familiarity with relevant, modern, software test tools, services, and equipment
- Proven ability to quickly learn new tools and technology
- Demonstrated ability to work in a fast paced and changing environment with short deadlines, interruptions, and several simultaneous tasks and projects
Preferred Experience:
- Experience with .Net framework, Python and scripting languages
- Experience in building cloud-based container components (for instance using Kubernetes/Docker)
- Experience with data science and AI/ML tools and frameworks for development and deployment
- CI/CD experience using cloud-based technologies e.g., GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Helm, etc.
- Specific and relevant experience with Google Cloud Platform tools and services
- Experience with other Cloud Platforms such as AWS or Azure
- Experience with other Data Pipeline runners such as Flink or Spark
Travel Required:
- Up to 25%
Experience and Education
- Typically requires a Bachelors degree in a technical discipline, and a minimum of 13+ years related experience or a Masters degree and 8+ years equivalent industry experience of a PhD and 5+ years of experience.
Exempt Salary Details:
- The annual base salary range for this role is $149,000 to $248,300. Final compensation package will ultimately depend on factors including relevant experience, skillset, knowledge, business needs and market demand.
Please note: The information contained herein is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job, nor are they intended to be an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Management may, at its discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. The duties and responsibilities in this job description may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Dexcom’s AAP may be viewed upon request by contacting Talent Acquisition at talentacquisition@dexcom.com.
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