Principal AI Platform Engineer - Health Data

CVS Health; Virginia; Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health in the United States seeks a Principal Engineer to design and build the health data platform on Google Cloud, leading how teams use AI agents to develop and operate it. The role emphasizes governance, scalable architecture, and collaboration with product leaders in a regulated environment.

You will drive AI-assisted development and operations, ensure strong security and data lineage, and communicate complex solutions to executives and engineers alike.

Qualifications

• 12+ years building production distributed systems.
• 5+ years leading architecture across multiple teams at staff/principal level.
• Experience designing and delivering large-scale batch and streaming data platforms.
• Current hands-on coding in Python and Go/Java/C#.
• Deep experience with Google Cloud, incl. GKE, BigQuery, Spanner, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Vertex AI.
• Production ML/LLM systems experience, incl. retrieval, extraction, evaluation and serving at scale.
• Extensive use of AI agents across design, development, testing and code review.
• Strong written communication and ability to present to senior executives.

Responsibilities

• Platform design: Architect platform on Google Cloud with engineering leadership.
• Engineering: Write production code for critical components and create reference implementations.
• AI-assisted development: Define practices for AI coding agents, guardrails, reviews, and governance.
• AI-assisted operations: Design AI-driven incident triage, runbook automation and cost management.
• Compliance and controls: Build enterprise controls, audits, data lineage and governance.
• Communication: Explain complex systems to executives and stakeholders, with diagrams.

Skills

Distributed systems

Architecture leadership

Python

Go

Cloud platforms

ML systems

AI agents

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Google Cloud

GKE

BigQuery

Spanner

Dataflow

Pub/Sub

Vertex AI

Job description

CVS Health in the United States seeks a Principal Engineer to design and build the health data platform on Google Cloud, leading how teams use AI agents to develop and operate it. The role emphasizes governance, scalable architecture, and collaboration with product leaders in a regulated environment.

You will drive AI-assisted development and operations, ensure strong security and data lineage, and communicate complex solutions to executives and engineers alike.