Digital Development Engineer II

CVS Health; Georgia; Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Digital Development Engineer II to improve the reliability, resilience, availability, and performance of critical applications and infrastructure. You will establish and mature SLIs, SLOs, monitoring, and alerting for applications.

The role involves production incident response, troubleshooting, stabilization, RCAs, and close collaboration with platform, infrastructure, and business teams to drive reliability improvements. 40 hours per week, full-time with benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering and backend development experience.
• Experience with Java/Spring Boot and/or Node.js/TypeScript.
• Experience with AWS and cloud-native technologies.
• Experience with Kubernetes/containerized environments.
• REST APIs and microservices expertise; CI/CD and deployment automation.
• Observability tools such as New Relic or similar; centralized logging with Splunk.
• Distributed-system troubleshooting experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop automation to reduce manual operational work and improve reliability.
• Create and maintain operational standards, procedures, and runbooks.
• Analyze major releases and production changes for availability and reliability risks.
• Identify dependencies and potential failure points across distributed systems.
• Develop resiliency and testing strategies for applications and infrastructure.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to drive reliability improvements.
• Contribute to CI/CD and automation workflows enabling reliable software delivery.
• Promote SRE principles and reliability practices across engineering teams.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Node.js

TypeScript

AWS

Kubernetes

REST APIs

Microservices

CI/CD

New Relic

Splunk

Job description

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.

Position Summary

CVS Health is seeking a Digital Development Engineer II to Improve the reliability, resilience, availability, and performance of critical applications and infrastructure. The Digital Development Engineer will establish and mature SLIs, SLOs, monitoring, and alerting for applications The right candidate will participate in production incident response, troubleshooting, stabilization, root-cause analysis, and MTTR improvement

What you will do

• Develop automation to reduce manual operational work and improve reliability
• Create and maintain operational standards, procedures, and runbooks
• Analyze major releases and production changes for potential availability and reliability risks
• Identify application dependencies and potential failure points across distributed systems
• Develop and implement resiliency and testing strategies for applications and infrastructure
• Partner with application, platform, infrastructure, and business teams to drive reliability improvements
• Contribute to CI/CD and automation workflows that enable reliable software delivery
• Help drive SRE principles and reliability practices across engineering teams

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in software engineering & backend development
• Experience with Java/Spring Boot and/or Node.js/TypeScript
• Experience with AWS and cloud-native technologies
• Experience with Kubernetes / containerized environments
• Experience with REST APIs and microservices
• CI/CD and deployment automation
• New Relic or similar observability/APM technology
• Splunk / centralized logging
• Distributed-system troubleshooting

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of problem solving and decision making skills
• Automation/scripting
• Messaging/queue technologies such as Kafka
• Production incident management and RCA
• Monitoring, alerting, SLIs and SLOs

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (High School Diploma and 4 years relevant experience)

Anticipated Weekly Hours

40

Time Type

Full time

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$83,430.00 - $166,860.00

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 offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.

This full-time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.

Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 11/30/2026

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.