Principal SW Development Engineer

The Company

Dexcom Corporation (NASDAQ DXCM) is a pioneer and global leader in continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). Dexcom began as a small company with a big dream: To forever change how diabetes is managed. To unlock information and insights that drive better health outcomes. Here we are 25 years later having pioneered an industry. And were just getting started. We are broadening our vision beyond diabetes to empower people to take control of health. That means personalized actionable insights aimed at solving important health challenges. To continue what weve started: Improving human health.

We are driven by thousands of ambitious passionate people worldwide who are willing to fight like warriors to earn the trust of our customers by listening serving with integrity thinking big and being dependable. Weve already changed millions of lives and were ready to change millions more. Our future ambition is to become a leading consumer health technology company while continuing to develop solutions for serious health conditions. Well get there by constantly reinventing unique biosensing-technology experiences. Though weve come a long way from our small company days our dreams are bigger than ever. The opportunity to improve health on a global scale stands before us.

Meet the team

This role is open to remote candidates.

Within the R&D Software Architecture team the Platform Architect will define and guide the architecture of server-side backend and cloud platform capabilities that support Dexcoms products and services. This architect will collaborate with product management marketing cybersecurity quality and firmware data software and mobile application engineering teams to translate business and customer needs into secure scalable reliable and maintainable platform solutions.

The Platform Architect will establish architectural direction across backend services APIs data flows integrations and shared platform capabilities. This role will apply proven software architecture and systems engineering principles to define requirements evaluate design alternatives manage interfaces resolve competing priorities and reduce technical and operational risk.

The architect will lead or support technology exploration modeling proofs of concept prototyping and technical down-selection. They will also guide system integration verification performance resilience and scalability testing to demonstrate that platform solutions meet product business security privacy and regulatory requirements.

Working as a senior member of the technology organization this architect will collaborate with company leadership product teams quality assurance cybersecurity alliance partners vendors and other stakeholders. The architect will serve as an authority and advocate for the consistent application of platform architecture principles engineering standards and modern backend development practices across teams.

Where you come in

• Provide architectural direction for strategic technology and product decisions involving server-side backend and cloud platforms.

• Define target-state and reference architectures for distributed services APIs data pipelines event-driven systems integrations and shared platform capabilities.

• Translate customer product business regulatory security and operational needs into platform requirements and architecture patterns.

• Design systems for scalability availability resilience performance security privacy observability maintainability and cost efficiency.

• Define service boundaries domain models API contracts integration patterns data ownership and platform interfaces.

• Evaluate architectural tradeoffs involving consistency availability latency throughput complexity delivery speed operational risk and cost.

• Establish standards and guidance for service development API design cloud infrastructure data management deployment configuration and system integration.

• Partner with cybersecurity and privacy teams to incorporate identity and access management encryption secrets management auditability threat modeling and secure-by-design principles.

• Develop strategies for meeting applicable medical-device privacy security and software lifecycle requirements throughout technology development and product commercialization.

• Identify document track and actively reduce technical operational security project and business risks.

• Lead architecture reviews and provide clear actionable guidance to engineering teams.

• Evaluate new platform technologies and determine when adoption will accelerate development improve reliability or create a competitive advantage.

• Lead proofs of concept and technical evaluations using modeling prototyping experimentation and measurable acceptance criteria.

• Guide capacity planning performance engineering reliability testing disaster recovery business continuity and subsystem and system integration testing.

• Define and promote observability practices including logging metrics tracing alerting service-level objectives and production health monitoring.

• Collaborate with DevOps Site Reliability Engineering and infrastructure teams to improve deployment automation environment consistency operational readiness and incident response.

• Communicate complex architectural decisions alternatives risks and recommendations clearly to engineering teams product stakeholders and senior management.

• Maintain architecture documentation decision records interface specifications system diagrams and technical roadmaps.

• Independently plan prioritize and manage architecture initiatives while providing periodic progress risk and decision updates to management.

• Take a direct technical leadership role in high-priority or complex platform initiatives when business needs require it.

• Mentor engineers and architects provide technical direction and help teams apply architectural guidance effectively.

• Advance Dexcoms software engineering practice by identifying and implementing best-in-class architecture methods tools standards and development practices.

What makes you successful

• Deep experience architecting and delivering large-scale server-side backend or cloud-native platforms.

• Strong knowledge of distributed systems microservices service-oriented architectures event-driven systems and asynchronous processing.

• Experience designing REST gRPC event-based or similar service interfaces and managing versioning and backward compatibility.

• Strong understanding of relational and non-relational databases caching messaging streaming data consistency and data lifecycle management.

• Experience with public-cloud services containerized workloads infrastructure as code continuous delivery and modern platform engineering practices.

• Demonstrated ability to design highly available fault-tolerant observable secure and cost-effective production systems.

• Experience with authentication authorization data protection privacy threat modeling and secure software development.

• Ability to connect business and product objectives to pragmatic technical strategies and architectural roadmaps.

• Strong systems thinking and an ability to manage complex dependencies and tradeoffs across multiple teams.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to influence technical and nontechnical stakeholders without relying on direct authority.

• Experience in a regulated industryparticularly medical devices healthcare or digital healthis strongly preferred.

What youll 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:

• 0-5%

Experience and Education

• Typically requires a Bachelors degree ina technical discipline and a minimum of13 years related experience or a Mastersdegree and 8 years equivalent industryexperience of a PhD and 5 years ofexperience

Remote Workplace:

• Your location will be a home office; you are not required to live within commuting distance of your assigned Dexcom site (typically 75 miles/120km). If you reside within commuting distance of a Dexcom site (typically 75 miles/120km) a hybrid working environment may be available. Ask about our Flex workplace option.

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. Dexcoms AAP may be viewed upon request by contacting Talent Acquisition at

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