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Position Summary:
CVS Health's Developer Experience (DevEx) organization is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to provide technical leadership across platform engineering, developer tooling, and AI-enabled software development. This individual will define technical strategy and architecture for critical DevEx platforms while partnering closely with the Acceleration organization, including API Platform, Experience Platform, Feature Flagging, and Mobile teams, to ensure a cohesive and interoperable engineering ecosystem.
The Distinguished Engineer will drive innovation in AI-assisted software development, influence enterprise-wide architectural decisions, and serve as a key contributor to CVS Health's open source strategy. This role requires a highly credible, hands-on technical leader who can drive alignment, influence without direct authority, and elevate engineering excellence across the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own technical architecture, standards, and technical direction for a core domain within DevEx's platform engineering portfolio, serving as the highest-level technical escalation point.
- Partner with Acceleration leadership and engineering teams to align internal developer platform investments, including CAP (CVS Health's Kubernetes-based application platform), CI/CD, and software supply chain security capabilities.
- Influence architecture decisions across Acceleration platforms, particularly related to platform interoperability, AI-enabled systems, observability, and edge computing patterns.
- Lead the organization's AI-enabled Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) strategy, evaluating and driving adoption of AI coding assistants, agentic development tools, and AI-powered engineering workflows.
- Shape how AI technologies transform software planning, development, testing, deployment, and operational processes across engineering teams.
- Serve as a leading voice in DevEx's open source strategy, identifying opportunities for open sourcing platforms and components while supporting licensing and intellectual property considerations.
- Champion the evolution of key platforms, including Flip, toward open, AI-driven, and edge-enabled solutions.
- Actively contribute to and foster engagement with relevant open source communities while establishing best practices for open source consumption and contribution.
- Influence senior engineers, principal engineers, and engineering leaders across DevEx and partner organizations to elevate technical standards and engineering excellence.
- Evaluate and recommend build-versus-buy decisions related to developer productivity platforms, secrets management, AI infrastructure, and engineering tooling.
- Lead technical due diligence for vendor and open source technology selections, including API gateways, feature flagging solutions, developer portals, and platform engineering capabilities.
Required Qualifications:
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant technical leadership experience in Principal, Staff+, or Distinguished Engineer roles.
- Proven success leading technical strategy and architecture within large-scale enterprise environments, preferably supporting organizations with 10,000+ engineers.
- Deep hands-on expertise with internal developer platforms, Kubernetes-based infrastructure, cloud-native technologies, and CI/CD ecosystems.
- Strong experience with AI-assisted software development, including coding assistants, agentic development frameworks, and AI-enabled SDLC practices.
- Demonstrated track record of influencing technical strategy and architectural decisions across organizational boundaries without direct reporting authority.
- Active participation and credibility within open source communities through contribution, maintenance, or leadership of open source projects.
- Exceptional stakeholder management, executive communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience evaluating and implementing modern developer tooling, platform engineering solutions, and software delivery technologies.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with API gateway technologies such as Apigee, Kong, Azure API Management (APIM), or similar enterprise API platforms.
- Background working with feature flagging platforms, developer portals, software supply chain security, or platform engineering products.
- Experience operating in highly regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services, or other compliance-driven environments.
- Demonstrated success leading enterprise-wide AI transformation initiatives and scaling AI-enabled engineering practices across large organizations.
- Experience developing, governing, or accelerating enterprise open source strategies and community engagement programs.
- Strong understanding of observability, edge computing architectures, and modern developer experience best practices.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, information systems, or a related quantitative discipline, or equivalent work experience.
- Master degree preferred.
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$175,100.00 - $334,750.00
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 offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
Skills Required
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant technical leadership in Principal, Staff+, or Distinguished Engineer roles
- Technical strategy and architecture experience in large-scale enterprise environments, preferably supporting organizations with 10,000+ engineers
- Hands-on expertise with internal developer platforms, Kubernetes-based infrastructure, cloud-native technologies, and CI/CD ecosystems
- Experience with AI-assisted software development, coding assistants, agentic development frameworks, and AI-enabled SDLC practices
- Track record of influencing technical strategy and architectural decisions across organizational boundaries without direct reporting authority
- Active participation and credibility within open source communities through contribution, maintenance, or leadership of open source projects
- Exceptional stakeholder management, executive communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Experience evaluating and implementing modern developer tooling, platform engineering solutions, and software delivery technologies
- Experience with enterprise API gateway technologies such as Apigee, Kong, Azure API Management, or similar platforms
- Background with feature flagging platforms, developer portals, software supply chain security, or platform engineering products
- Experience in highly regulated industries such as healthcare or financial services
- Experience leading enterprise-wide AI transformation initiatives and scaling AI-enabled engineering practices
- Experience developing, governing, or accelerating enterprise open source strategies and community engagement programs
- Understanding of observability, edge computing architectures, and modern developer experience practices
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, information systems, or a related quantitative discipline, or equivalent work experience
- Master's degree
CVS Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about CVS Health and has not been reviewed or approved by CVS Health.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes medical, dental, and vision with HSA-eligible options, free preventive care, virtual care, and access to MinuteClinic services. Mental-health resources such as counseling support are emphasized, and coverage is often considered solid for full-time colleagues.
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Retirement Support — A dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 5% after one year and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan are consistently highlighted in Total Rewards materials. Feedback suggests retirement programs are a meaningful strength within the overall package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing offerings include up to 20 no-cost counseling sessions per issue, backup care, tuition assistance, and substantial in-store discounts, alongside broader wellness tools. These everyday perks expand value beyond base pay and can be especially meaningful for full-time schedules.
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What We Do
CVS Health is the leading health solutions company that delivers care in ways no one else can. We reach people in more ways and improve the health of communities across America through our local presence, digital channels and our nearly 300,000 dedicated colleagues – including more than 40,000 physicians, pharmacists, nurses and nurse practitioners. Wherever and whenever people need us, we help them with their health – whether that’s managing chronic diseases, staying compliant with their medications, or accessing affordable health and wellness services in the most convenient ways. We help people navigate the health care system – and their personal health care – by improving access, lowering costs and being a trusted partner for every meaningful moment of health. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.
