Staff Software Development Engineer
CVS Health23 hours ago
Base Salary
$107k - $284k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain secure, performant, and resilient backend microservices using Java/JEE, Spring Boot, and RESTful APIs.
- Implement event-driven systems with Apache Kafka, including producers, consumers, schema evolution, partitioning, and consumer groups.
- Model and exchange JSON data with robust validation, versioning, and backward compatibility.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with testing, static analysis, artifact promotion, and progressive delivery.
- Partner with Security and DevOps teams to integrate SAST, DAST, dependency and image scanning, and secrets management.
- Apply 12-factor application principles, infrastructure-as-code, and configuration management practices.
- Integrate backend services with EHR systems and healthcare data standards such as HL7 v2, FHIR, SMART on FHIR, and CCD/C-CDA.
- Ensure HIPAA, data governance, encryption, and platform security compliance.
- Own production readiness, availability, latency, throughput, and cost efficiency for high-volume services.
- Diagnose production issues, perform root cause analysis, and improve reliability using SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
- Implement structured logging, metrics, tracing, monitoring, and incident response capabilities.
- Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design discussions while mentoring junior engineers.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of professional software development experience.
- At least 5 years of backend application development with Java/JEE, Spring Boot, and Node.js.
- Experience building RESTful microservices and distributed systems.
- At least 3 years deploying and operating services on Google Cloud Platform using cloud-native patterns, including GKE or Cloud Run, IAM, and managed data services.
- Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms.
- Strong understanding of REST API design, JSON data modeling, and OpenAPI/Swagger documentation.
- Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized workloads using Docker; Kubernetes is preferred.
- Knowledge of OAuth2/OIDC, TLS, and secrets management.
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; a high school diploma plus 4 years of relevant experience is accepted.
- Healthcare, regulated-systems, or large-scale data-integration experience is preferred.
- A cloud certification such as GCP Professional DevOps Engineer or AWS DevOps Engineer is preferred.
- Familiarity with Spanner, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, or similar managed data services is preferred.
- Familiarity with Grafana, Splunk, observability, monitoring, and alerting systems is preferred.
- Certified Systems Engineering Professional certification is a plus.
- Experience operating production cloud services and strong debugging, performance-profiling, and operational-troubleshooting skills are preferred.
Benefits
- Full-time position with medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources based on eligibility.
- Eligible for CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive programs and an equity award program; compensation details are excluded from this benefits summary.
- Application window is anticipated to close on 11/27/2026.
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About CVS Health
CVS Health is a U.S. health care company that operates thousands of retail pharmacies, runs the CVS Caremark pharmacy benefits manager, and owns the Aetna health insurance business. It sells prescriptions, retail health goods, and insurance plans, and provides primary and urgent care through MinuteClinic and other services for consumers, employers, and government programs. Founded in 1963 and headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, it is a public company traded on the NYSE.