Staff Software Development Engineer
CVS Health4 days ago
Base Salary
$107k - $284k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain secure, performant, and resilient backend microservices using Java/JEE, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and JSON.
- Implement Apache Kafka event-driven systems, including producers, consumers, schema evolution, partitioning, and consumer groups.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with testing, static analysis, artifact promotion, and progressive delivery.
- Deploy and operate services on Google Cloud Platform using GKE or Cloud Run, IAM, and managed data services.
- Apply 12-factor principles, infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, and automated security controls.
- Integrate backend services with EHR systems and healthcare standards including HL7 v2, FHIR, SMART on FHIR, and CCD/C-CDA.
- Ensure HIPAA, data-governance, encryption, and platform-security compliance.
- Own production readiness across availability, latency, throughput, cost efficiency, observability, and incident response.
- Diagnose production issues, perform root cause analysis, and drive reliability improvements using SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
- Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design discussions while mentoring junior engineers.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of professional software development experience with Java/JEE and Spring Boot.
- At least 5 years of experience building RESTful microservices and distributed systems, including REST API design, JSON data modeling, and OpenAPI/Swagger documentation.
- At least 5 years of practical experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized workloads, including Docker; Kubernetes is preferred.
- At least 3 years of experience operating production services in cloud environments, preferably GCP.
- At least 3 years of experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms.
- At least 3 years of experience with OAuth2/OIDC, TLS, and secrets management.
- Experience with healthcare, regulated systems, or large-scale data integration platforms is preferred.
- Cloud certification such as GCP Professional DevOps Engineer, AWS DevOps Engineer, or equivalent is preferred.
- Familiarity with Spanner, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Grafana, and Splunk is preferred.
- Strong debugging, performance profiling, operational troubleshooting, observability, monitoring, and alerting skills are preferred; CSEP certification is a plus.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience is required; a high school diploma plus 4 years of relevant experience is accepted.
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.
- 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.