Staff Software Development Engineer
CVS Health1 day ago
Base Salary
$107k - $284k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain secure, performant, and resilient backend microservices using Java/JEE and Spring Boot.
- Implement Apache Kafka producers and consumers, schema evolution, partitioning, and consumer groups for event-driven systems.
- 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.
- Deploy and operate services on Google Cloud Platform using GKE or Cloud Run, IAM, and managed data services.
- Integrate backend services with EHR systems and healthcare data standards including 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, 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 and code reviews, technical design discussions, and mentoring of 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 experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized workloads, with Docker experience and Kubernetes 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 security fundamentals including OAuth2/OIDC, TLS, and secrets management.
- Strong debugging, performance profiling, and operational troubleshooting skills.
- Experience in healthcare, regulated systems, or large-scale data integration platforms is preferred.
- Cloud certification such as GCP Professional DevOps Engineer or AWS DevOps Engineer is preferred.
- Familiarity with Spanner, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Grafana, or Splunk is preferred; CSEP certification is a plus.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, including a high-school diploma plus four years of relevant experience.
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 December 4, 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.