Senior Software Engineer IaaS

Job description

At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.

As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate.

And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

**POSITION SUMMARY**

At CVS, we're building an Infrastructure Platform to enable teams across CVS Digital to quickly and safely deploy code and operate applications at the scale of a large company! The Infrastructure Platform will be leveraged by hundreds of engineers across Retail, Pharmacy, Health Solutions, and Aetna writing applications that will be used by millions of customers.

As a senior software engineer on the team, you'll be responsible for leading efforts to build APIs, CLI tools, out of the box observability, and a deployment platform that enables teams across CVS to build, test, preview, deploy and operate systems with reduced lead time and stack complexity.

Specifically, this role will be focused on leveraging existing APIs and technologies to provision databases and storage solutions to our engineers.

This is a new team at CVS, and we need an engineer who is passionate about new technologies and automation that make managing infrastructure for a large corporation seamless.

We are looking for a technical leader who can collaborate well with others, advocate for best practices, and program in Java or Go to build a platform that engineers want to use.

This is a unique opportunity to help build a platform from the ground up and set the standard for exceptional code and safe deployments for a large company.

_What we expect of you_

+ A self-starter who can see the big picture and prioritize their work to make the largest impact on the business
+ Be a technologist who can work with other engineers to plan, prioritize and perform assigned tasks within deadlines
+ Be able to develop technical solutions in collaboration with other engineers across CVS Digital to ensure we're building an infrastructure platform with our customer's needs in mind
+ Contribute to the implementation of a self-service platform that enables engineers to deploy code safely, quickly, and easily
+ Actively participate in peer code reviews, providing feedback to your fellow engineers to make them better and to improve the quality of the software we deliver
+ Enjoy automating developer pain away by developing APIs, CLIs, bots, etc
+ Ability to approach all engineering work with a performance lens and make it easy for teams to identify performance bottlenecks
+ Have interest in mentoring other team members so that they can become the best version of themselves
+ Look for opportunities to share what you've learned with the broader engineering organization.

**REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS**

+ 5+ years of overall backend development experience on enterprise class applications
+ 3+ years of experience in event-streaming technologies like Kafka
+ 3+ years partnering with architecture, product, and program management teams to influence product development decisions
+ 3+ years of backend technologies, such as Java, Golang, PostgreSQL or Cassandra
+ 3+ years of experience with large public cloud technologies i.e. GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.
+ Experience with teams who follow a Scrum/Agile development methodology

**PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS**

+ Experience with backend API's
+ Experience with Kafka
+ Experience with industry cloud providers
+ Experience with GraphQL
+ Ability to understand the performance of a largely scaled infrastructure platform
+ Ability to identify customer needs and pain points and identify solutions

**EDUCATION**

Bachelor’s degree or, equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)

**BUSINESS OVERVIEW**

Bring your heart to CVS Health Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health.

This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world.

Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.

Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose.

We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable.

We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day.

CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services.

We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities.

**Anticipated Weekly Hours**

40

**Time Type**

Full time

**Pay Range**

The typical pay range for this role is:

$92,700.00 - $185,400.00

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.

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 our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits – investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be.

In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include:

+ **Affordable medical plan options,** a **401(k) plan** (including matching company contributions), and an **employee stock purchase plan** .
+ **No-cost programs for all colleagues** including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.
+ **Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues** including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.

For more information, visit https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 09/26/2025

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Required Skill Profession

Other General