Sr. Staff DevOps 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:
Our team is a dynamic mix of tech enthusiasts problem solvers and creative thinkers united by our passion for leveraging cutting-edge technology to transform healthcare and empower our customers to take real-time control of their health.

Where you come in:
As a Senior Staff Systems Design Engineer specializing in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and agentic AI platform offerings your role is pivotal in designing implementing and optimizing cloud-based systems that leverage the capabilities of the cloud to meet the organizations needs. We believe the best way to learn is teaching others so mentorship communication and knowledge sharing is a core part of this position. Your duties typically include:

1. Architecting Solutions: You will be responsible for designing robust and scalable architectures on GCP to support the organizations applications and services. This involves understanding business requirements; complex multi-cloud and facility networking and interconnects; evaluating cloud services across GCP Azure and AWS; and designing solutions that meet performance reliability and cost requirements.

2. Artificial Intelligence Platforms: You will lead efforts to provide agentic AI platform services to ensure Dexcom ITs ability to scale and meet evolving automation needs. Securing recommending and providing the underlying architectures and evolving best practices will give you an opportunity to have a long lasting impact using emerging technology.

3. Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Implementing Infrastructure as Code practices using tools like Terraform or Google Cloud Deployment Manager to automate the provisioning and management of resources across our cloud platforms.

4. Performance and Cost Optimization: Continuously monitoring and optimizing the performance of cloud systems to ensure optimal resource utilization scalability and reliability. This includes identifying bottlenecks and wasted resources tuning configurations and implementing best practices to improve system performance in a financially responsible manner.

5. Security and Compliance: Implementing security best practices and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and standards (e.g. HIPAA GDPR) in cloud environments. This involves configuring identity and access management network security encryption and auditing/logging solutions to protect data and resources.

6. Collaboration and Documentation: Collaborating with cross-functional teams including developers operations and security teams to ensure alignment on architecture decisions and implementation strategies. Documenting design decisions configurations and procedures to facilitate knowledge sharing and future troubleshooting.

7. Stay Updated: Keeping abreast of the latest developments and best practices in cloud computing especially related to GCP. This involves attending training sessions participating in forums and obtaining relevant certifications to enhance expertise in GCP services and technologies.

Overall as a Senior Staff Systems Design Engineer who specializes in GCP and agentic AI platforms your role is crucial in designing and maintaining reliable scalable and secure cloud-based systems that enable the organization to leverage the full potential of our cloud platforms.

What makes you successful:
Deep expertise in GCP and a familiarity with Azure and AWS.
Strong experience in GitOps/DevOps GitHub Github Runners Backstage/Roadie ArgoCD and Cloud Deploy.
Handson experience designing and operating enterprise AI platforms on GCP including Vertex AI Model Garden Agent Engine and ADK.
Strong understanding of agentic AI architectures (toolcalling orchestration memory RAG) with the ability to translate business / development needs into secure reusable scalable GenAI platform capabilities.
Expertise in K8S proficiency in VMs Cloud Run and Serverless technologies will ensure success.
Leadership level of experience with IaC with Terraform Cloud and Ansible.
Deep understanding of cloud networking technology including VPCs LBs firewalls etc.
Familiariy with data tech such as Big Query Snowflake MongoDB and Cloud SQL (MariaDB MSSQL).
Ability to provide technical leadership and work direction to junior staff including both project and operational activities.
Ability to serve as the primary technical point on contact on incidents impacting services the team provides.
Ability to assist the Sr. Mgr in packaging and structuring operational work for execution
Ability to assist the Sr. Mgr in developing technical processes operating procedures and metrics for services and technologies for which the team is responsible.

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%
5-15%

Experience and Education Requirements:

Typically requires a Bachelors degree in a technical discipline and a minimum of 13 years related experience or a Masters degree and 8 years equivalent industry experience or a PhD and 5 years of experience.

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

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process please contact Dexcom Talent Acquisition at

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