Senior Cloud Platform Architect (AI-Driven Backend)

1 DexCom Inc; California; Hybrid; USD 156,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits program

Career development

Global opportunities

Job summary

Dexcom Corporation is seeking a senior backend platform architect to lead the design and evolution of scalable cloud‑native systems powering our data and AI‑enabled features. You will champion technical strategy, drive platform investments, and mentor engineers across multiple teams in a fast‑paced, regulated medical tech environment.

You will advance AI‑assisted development, push for robust CI/CD, security, observability, and cost optimization, and partner with Product, Security, SRE, and Data

Qualifications

• Requires deep backend and cloud-native engineering experience.
• Strong background in scalable distributed systems design.
• Proven ability to lead technical strategy and teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and evolution of cloud-native backends and data systems.
• Drive technical roadmaps across multiple teams and functions.
• Mentor senior engineers and improve engineering practices.

Skills

Python

Kotlin

Distributed systems

Leadership

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in technical discipline

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Firestore

Cloud SQL

Pub/Sub

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

GCP

Job description

Dexcom Corporation is seeking a senior backend platform architect to lead the design and evolution of scalable cloud‑native systems powering our data and AI‑enabled features. You will champion technical strategy, drive platform investments, and mentor engineers across multiple teams in a fast‑paced, regulated medical tech environment.

You will advance AI‑assisted development, push for robust CI/CD, security, observability, and cost optimization, and partner with Product, Security, SRE, and Data