Senior SW Engineer I

Requistion ID: 82177

Dentsply Sirona is the world's largest manufacturer of professional dental products and technologies, with a 130-year history of innovation and service to the dental industry and patients worldwide. Dentsply Sirona develops, manufactures, and markets a comprehensive solutions offering including dental and oral health products as well as other consumable medical devices under a strong portfolio of world class brands. Dentsply Sirona's products provide innovative, high-quality and effective solutions to advance patient care and deliver better and safer dentistry. Dentsply Sirona's global headquarters is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. The company's shares are listed in the United States on NASDAQ under the symbol XRAY.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer I to join our team. This individual will lead moderate to large-scale projects, balancing technical depth with business impact. They would be part of a team that implements software solutions for computing, improving & checking tooth morphology & implant data in the world of dentistry.

This is a hybrid position which requires working in our Zurich office at least one day per week.

Key Responsibilities

* Plan, design, implement, test, and deploy end-to-end services - owning the full lifecycle from architecture through production - focused on generating tooth morphologies using geometric algorithms and machine learning.
* Actively write and review production code, shipping features across the stack and owning the technical details that make them successful.
* Maintain and improve service deployments, including build, release, and operational tooling.
* Own CI/CD pipelines for the team's services: reliability, speed, quality gates, and developer experience.
* Partner with architects and DevOps/SRE to optimize performance, scalability, observability, and cost.
* Drive technical implementations for seamless realization of business needs.
* Lead and perform implementation of epics containing multiple features, ensuring effective story breakdown.
* Contribute to epic refinement to ensure clear feature story definition.
* Responsible for system performance, security, and reliability of major components.
* Present technical strategies to teams and stakeholders.
* Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure alignment on technical decisions.
* Drive team-wide improvements and mentor junior engineers.
* Guide team members in implementing best practices and maintaining code quality.

Qualifications:

Education:

* Bachelor's or Master's degree in relevant fields, or relevant strong industry experience.

Years and Type of Experience:

* 5+ years of software engineering experience.
* Experience with cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices with a track record of shipping and operating production services end-to-end (experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a plus).
* Strong experience building backend/services in C++ (required). Go is a plus; Flutter/Dart a plus for UI/client work if relevant.
* Proven experience owning deployments and CI/CD pipelines (build/test automation, release workflows, quality gates, observability basics).
* Demonstrated ability to lead delivery of multi-feature epics: breaking down work, driving technical approach, coordinating across engineers, and delivering on time while remaining hands-on in implementation.
* Experience collaborating on and influencing architecture (tradeoffs, scalability, maintainability), without requiring formal architect/manager responsibilities.
* Hands-on technical leadership through mentoring (pairing, reviews) and driving continuous improvements to engineering practices.

Key Skills, Knowledge & Capabilities:

* Expert C++ (modern C++ preferred).
* Docker & Kubernetes (production experience)
* Strong system design & coding (hands-on delivery)
* CI/CD ownership and DevOps/SRE collaboration
* Technical leadership & mentoring (hands on senior engineer)
* Knowledge of Machine Learning / AI is advantageous (applied/production is a plus).
* AliCloud experience (nice to have)
* Good knowledge of English, both written and spoken. German language skills are advantageous.
* Knowledge of medical device development is advantageous

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DentsplySirona is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, or protected Veteran status. We appreciate your interest in DentsplySirona.

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