Staff SW Development Engineer

Dexcom Inc; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Dexcom Inc in Bengaluru is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to serve as a senior technical leader across multiple teams and domains, defining the technical strategy for core platform capabilities and ensuring quality, reliability, scalability, security, and compliance.

You will lead architecture, drive platform evolution, mentor engineers, and collaborate with teams in India and the United States to build scalable healthcare workflows and polyglot stack (Node, Ruby, Scala, Go, SvelteKit,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership.
• Proven track record of leading architecture and delivery for large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in modern web architectures, cloud-native platforms, and system design.
• Experience influencing multiple teams and stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strong understanding of scalability, resilience, observability, security, and operational excellence.
• Experience balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term architectural sustainability.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and technical direction across multiple systems, services, and teams.
• Drive long-term technical strategy and platform evolution.
• Partner with engineering managers, product leaders, and architects to align technical investments with business objectives.
• Identify and resolve systemic scalability, reliability, and operational challenges.
• Apply domain-driven design principles to model healthcare workflows, define clear service boundaries, and build systems that evolve, maintain, and scale with ease.
• Lead the design of highly scalable, resilient, and maintainable distributed systems across a polyglot stack (Node, Ruby, Scala, Go, SvelteKit, Ember).
• Establish engineering standards and influence development best practices across the organization.
• Mentor senior engineers and serve as a technical advisor to multiple teams.
• Guide teams through complex technical decisions, trade-offs, and architectural reviews.
• Drive initiatives related to platform modernization, observability, developer productivity, and operational excellence.
• Ensure solutions meet performance, security, privacy, and compliance expectations.
• Lead technical investigations, incident reviews, and strategic improvement efforts.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

Distributed systems design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Job Description

Meet the team:

We'rebuilding a new engineering organization in Bengaluru to help scale Dexcom's HCP platforms, including ClarityDexcom's analytics and reporting platform that transforms CGM data into actionable insights for healthcare professionals.

As a Staff Software Engineer,you'llserve as a senior technical leader across multiple teams and domains.You'llhelp define the technical strategy for critical platform capabilities while partnering with engineering leaders in both India and the United States. Our systems support healthcare workflows worldwide, making quality, reliability, scalability, security, andcompliancefoundational requirements.

We value technical leaders who combine deep engineeringexpertisewith pragmatism, mentorship, anda strong senseof ownership.

Where you come in:

• Lead architecture and technical direction across multiple systems, services, and teams.
• Drive long-term technical strategy and platform evolution.
• Partner with engineering managers, product leaders, and architects to align technical investments with businessobjectives.
• Identifyand resolve systemic scalability, reliability, and operational challenges.
• Apply domain-driven design principles to help teams model complex healthcare workflows, define clear service boundaries, and build systems that evolve,maintain, and scale with ease
• Lead the design of highly scalable, resilient, and maintainable distributed systemsacross a polyglot stack (Node, Ruby, Scala, Go,SvelteKit, Ember)
• Establish engineering standards and influencedevelopmentbest practices across the organization.
• Mentor senior engineers and serve as a technical advisor to multiple teams.
• Guide teams through complex technical decisions, trade-offs, and architectural reviews.
• Drive initiatives related to platform modernization, observability, developer productivity, and operational excellence.
• Ensure solutions meet performance, security, privacy, and compliance expectations.
• Lead technical investigations, incident reviews, and strategic improvement efforts.
  

What makes you successful:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience withdemonstratedtechnical leadership.
• Proventrack recordof leading architecture and delivery for large-scale distributed systems.
• Deepexpertisein modern web architectures, cloud-native platforms, and system design.
• Experience influencing multiple teams and stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strong understanding of scalability, resilience, observability, security, and operational excellence.
• Experience balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term architectural sustainability.
• Strong experience working in agile engineering environments, with a practical understanding of iterative planning, incremental delivery, feedback loops, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong judgment and ability to make pragmatic decisions in ambiguous environments.
• Demonstrated history of mentoring engineers and elevating organizational technical capability.

Whatyoullget:

• A front row seat tolife changingCGM technology. Learn about our brave #dexcomwarriors community.
• Afull andcomprehensive benefitsprogram.
• Growth opportunities on a global scale.
• Access tocareer development through in-house learning programs and/orqualifiedtuition reimbursement.
• Anexcitingandinnovative,industry-leading organizationcommitted to our employees,customers, and the communities we serve.

Travel Required:

• 0-5%

Experience and Education Requirements:

• Typically requires a Bachelors degreein a technical discipline, and a minimumof 8-12 years related experience orMasters degree and 5-7 yearsequivalent industry experience or a PhDand 2-4 years of experience.