Staff Software Development Engineer

At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care. As the nation's leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose‑driven colleagues — caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

Position Summary

As a Staff Software Development Engineer on the team, you’ll be responsible for leading efforts to build end‑to‑end CI/CD pipelines, align and build clean security processes, create software applications, CLI tools, out‑of‑the‑box observability, and a deployment platform that enables teams across CVS Enterprise to build, test, preview, deploy, and operate systems with reduced lead time and stack complexity. Specifically, this role will focus on building a clean CI/CD experience that includes a strong security posture for customers, providing a seamless and efficient CI/CD experience. The engineer will have a laser focus on customer experience and will build solutions that align with enterprise initiatives and team objectives, delivering scalable solutions. Additionally, you should have a solid understanding of working within Cloud providers with a focus on efficient infrastructure. The engineer will have a laser focus on customer experience and building out solutions that align with enterprise initiatives and team objectives, delivering scalable solutions.

Ideal candidate can be anywhere in the US working remote or hybrid from one of the hub locations in IL, TX, NY, RI; however, we need someone who can work in the CST time zone.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of overall backend development experience on enterprise class applications.
• 6+ years of experience working as a DevOps Engineer building standardized workflows, templates, reusable pipelines, maintaining runners, runner pools, node pools.
• 3+ years experience with End‑to‑End CI/CD i.e. GitHub, GitHub Actions, artifact management such as JFrog.
• 2+ years experience partnering with architecture, product, and program management teams to influence product development decisions.
• 3+ years of experience with backend technologies, such as Java, C#, Python, Helm, Golang.
• 2+ years experience with Kafka and similar technologies.
• 2+ years experience with PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS experience.
• 3+ years experience with large public cloud technologies i.e. GCP, Azure, AWS, etc. and container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
• 3+ years of experience with leading teams who follow a Scrum/Agile development methodology.
• 2+ years of experience automating through scripting and/or CLIs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with full stack development.
• Experience with observability, telemetry for infrastructure services.
• Experience training and mentoring other engineers.
• Ability to understand the performance of a largely scaled infrastructure platform.
• Demonstrate ownership and accountability with the ability to thrive in a remote working setup with other team members.
• Ability to identify customer needs and pain points and identify self‑service automation solutions.
• Ability to think "Out of the box" to solve complex issues for the enterprise.
• Ability to present the benefits and drawbacks of various architecture designs for infrastructure.
• Experience with additional tools such as Octopus, TeamCity, Jenkins is a plus.

Education

Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:
$106,605.00 - $260,590.00
This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full‑time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short‑term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.

Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits — investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include:

• Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.
• No‑cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.
• Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.

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We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 11/23/2025

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.

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