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:
Dexcom’s R&D Data Platform is building our Site Reliability Engineering capability. We are seeking experienced and skilled individuals to help build the SRE team in supporting a variety of cloud-based services for our Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) product ecosystem. This is a greenfield program where the engineers get to build the practice with shared vision between leadership and their own ideas.
Team members must have a solid foundation in Agile practices, DevOps, Programing, Cloud, Reliability Architypes and Architecture, Observability, and Automation/Orchestration. We are looking for engineers who are self-starters, self-directed and be familiar with working in a high paced and regulated environment.
Where you come in:
You will be responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining and defining practice and process that keeps our products and services running smoothly. As SRE you will work closely with development, Cloud Engineering and Security teams to identify and address performance issues, optimize system performance, and ensure high availability and reliability of our systems.
- Exercise best practices to ensure and improve high availability, reliability, and recoverability of our platforms.
- Work with proprietary tools that mitigate weakness in incident management or software delivery.
- Maintain disaster recovery and business continuity automation and perform routine DR trials.
- Participate in platform management and capacity management practices.
- Maintain SLI’s adjusting as necessary to properly represent service reliability as service evolve and grow.
- Develop, maintain and configure cloud observability systems (e.g., DataDog, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, APM, etc.).
- Build flexible monitoring and alerting to proactively address issues before they become incidents.
- Identify and address performance issues and optimize system performance.
- Partner with development teams to establish application production readiness through rigorous testing and release procedures.
- Participate in on-call rotations for incident response and postmortem investigation.
- Participates in rigorous training both within and across engineering teams.
What makes you successful:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- 3 – 5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or related field
- Proficiency in at one or more programming language (Go, Java, Python, TypeScript, or shell scripting)
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog, Splunk, ELK
- Experience with cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, with preference for GCP.
- Understanding of Linux and Windows operating systems and networking fundamentals
- Understanding of distributed data streaming technologies such as Kafka.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration systems such as Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, or Helm
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Strong understanding of Networking in cloud.
- Strong understanding of DevOps principles and practices
- Strong with distributed systems and microservices architecture
- Strong with working with git and version control UIs (GitHub and Gitlab).
- Works with issue tracking tools, such as Jira.
What you’ll get:
- A front row seat to life changing CGM technology. Learn about our brave #dexcomwarriors community.
- 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.
Travel Required:
- 5-15%
Experience and Education
- Typically requires a Bachelors degree in a technical discipline, and a minimum of 8-12 years related experience or Masters degree and 5-7 years equivalent industry experience or a PhD and 2-4 years of experience.
Exempt Salary Details
- The annualized base salary range for this role is $122,500 to $204,100. Annualized values for non-exempt (hourly) positions are estimates, final annualized salary will depend on total hours worked. 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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