We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.
Job Description
We’re looking for a Senior Platform Software Engineer who thrives at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, backend engineering, and developer enablement. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys building secure, scalable platforms that abstract complexity away from product teams, while still being close to the underlying systems.
You’ll design and operate shared AI-native platforms that power application delivery, cloud-native services, CI/CD pipelines, and operational tooling. You’ll collaborate closely with SRE, security, and product engineering teams to ensure the platform is reliable, self-service, and built for scale.
This is not a traditional ops role, and it’s not purely application development. The focus is on productizing infrastructure and backend capabilities as platforms.
Key Responsibilities
Platform & Cloud Engineering
- Design, build, and operate cloud-native platforms on AWS (or equivalent), emphasizing scalability, availability, security, and cost efficiency
- Embed AI‑assisted and agentic workflows into CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure provisioning, incident response, and operational tooling
- Develop and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
- Build and support shared cloud services such as networking, IAM patterns, managed data services, observability tooling, and service templates
- Partner with SRE and security teams to embed reliability, compliance, and guardrails into platform workflows
Backend & Systems Development
- Design and build backend services, APIs, and internal platforms that enable other teams to move faster
- Develop automation and tooling using modern backend languages (e.g., Go, Python, Kotlin, Node, or similar)
- Contribute to service architecture decisions, including service-to-service communication patterns, data access strategies, and resiliency models
- Review code and architectural designs with a focus on performance, operability, and long-term maintainability
Developer Enablement
- Create self-service interfaces, documentation, and workflows that reduce friction for application teams
- Enable product teams to consume AI‑powered platform capabilities through secure, self‑service interfaces
- Improve CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and deployment strategies
- Advocate for platform-as-a-product thinking: usability, adoption, and developer experience matter
- Partner with product managers and engineers to understand developer pain points and translate them into platform capabilities
Technical Leadership
- Act as a senior technical contributor and mentor to other engineers
- Influence standards and best practices across infrastructure, backend, and platform design
- Participate in architecture reviews and contribute to longer-term platform roadmap discussions
- Lead by example in operational excellence, incident response, and post-incident learning
Required Qualifications
- Strong experience in cloud infrastructure engineering and backend service development
- Demonstrated experience for working in AI‑native engineering environments, where AI tools, agents, and automation are treated as core collaborators in the development process
- Hands-on experience with:
- AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS/Aurora, S3, IAM, VPC, etc.)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform strongly preferred)
- One or more backend languages (Go, Python, Kotlin, Node, Java, etc.)
- Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts: scalability, resilience, observability, and failure modes
- Experience building or operating CI/CD pipelines and release automation
- Ability to think in terms of platforms and products, not just individual systems
- Comfort working with abstractions while still understanding what’s underneath
- Experience enabling other teams through tooling, automation, and guardrails
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially for explaining complex systems clearly
- Self-starting, able to contribute to roadmap, and take initiative with features and user stories
Preferred Qualifications
- Full stack experience (React, frontend tooling, or internal UI development), though not required
- Familiarity with LLM platforms, agent frameworks, or AI‑enabled developer tooling (commercial or open source)
- Experience with Kubernetes, service meshes, or container orchestration platforms
- Familiarity with security and compliance concepts in regulated environments
- Prior experience on SRE, product, platform, or internal tooling teams
Education
Bachelor's degree preferred/specialized training/relevant professional qualification.
Anticipated Weekly Hours
40Time Type
Full timePay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$83,430.00 - $166,860.00This 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.
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
- Strong experience in cloud infrastructure engineering and backend service development
- Experience working in AI-native engineering environments using AI tools, agents, and automation
- Hands-on experience with AWS, including EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS/Aurora, S3, IAM, and VPC
- Infrastructure as Code experience; Terraform strongly preferred
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Go, Python, Kotlin, Node.js, or Java
- Understanding of distributed systems, scalability, resilience, observability, and failure modes
- Experience building or operating CI/CD pipelines and release automation
- Ability to design and operate platforms as products
- Experience enabling teams through tooling, automation, and guardrails
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to contribute to roadmaps, features, and user stories independently
- Bachelor's degree, specialized training, or relevant professional qualification
- Full-stack experience with React, frontend tooling, or internal UI development
- Familiarity with LLM platforms, agent frameworks, or AI-enabled developer tooling
- Experience with Kubernetes, service meshes, or container orchestration platforms
- Familiarity with security and compliance concepts in regulated environments
- Prior experience on SRE, product, platform, or internal tooling teams
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.
CVS Health Insights
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.
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