Staff SW Development Engineer

Dexcom Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Dexcom Inc. in Bengaluru is building a new engineering organization to scale Dexcom's HCP platforms, including Clarity—Dexcom's analytics and reporting platform that transforms CGM data into actionable insights for healthcare professionals.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll serve as a senior technical leader across multiple teams and domains, defining technical strategy and partnering with engineering leaders in India and the United States.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience with technical leadership.
• Proven track record 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 without direct authority.
• Strong understanding of scalability, resilience, observability, security, and operational excellence.
• Experience in agile environments and iterative delivery.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Mentoring engineers and elevating organizational capability.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and technical direction across 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 to model healthcare workflows and define service boundaries.
• Lead design of scalable, resilient distributed systems across a polyglot stack (Node, Ruby, Scala, Go, SvelteKit, Ember).
• Establish engineering standards and influence development best practices.
• Mentor senior engineers and act as a technical advisor to multiple teams.
• Guide teams through architectural decisions, trade-offs, and reviews.
• Drive platform modernization, observability, and developer productivity.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Distributed systems design

Cloud-native platforms

Web architectures

Mentoring engineers

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering

Tools

Node

Ruby

Scala

Go

SvelteKit

Ember

Job description

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 we're 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 we've 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. We've already changed millions of lives and we're 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. We'll get there by constantly reinventing unique biosensing-technology experiences. Though we've 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:

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

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll serve as a senior technical leader across multiple teams and domains. You'll help 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, and compliance foundational requirements.

We value technical leaders who combine deep engineering expertise with pragmatism, mentorship, and a strong sense of 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 business objectives.
• Identify and 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 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.

What makes you successful:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or 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.
• 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.

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:

• 0-5%

Experience and Education Requirements:

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline, and a minimum of 8‑12 years related experience or Master’s degree and 5‑7 years equivalent industry experience or a PhD and 2‑4 years of experience.

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