Senior Data Platform Engineer — Performance & Streaming

CVS Health Corporation; Massachusetts; Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Retirement savings options

Wellness programs

Job summary

CVS Health Corporation is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design and implement platforms that manage distributed event streaming technologies at CVS Health. You will own features for database, messaging, and data warehouse platforms, mentoring engineers and shaping the technical roadmap.

You will collaborate with teams to build high-performance, data-intensive applications and contribute to automation, security, and scalability initiatives across cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 5 years of applicable experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain key components of our data platform automation for provisioning, backups, and user management.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex performance and reliability issues in our data systems, often serving as an escalation point for the team.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve data streaming services, security, scalability, and automation.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support the team's critical services.
• Mentor junior engineers on the team, providing guidance on database administration, query optimization, and DBRE principles.
• Contribute to the technical roadmap by researching new data technologies and proposing innovative solutions.

Skills

5 years experience

Kafka

Redis

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Bash

Python

Azure

AWS

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

GitHub Actions

Job description

CVS Health Corporation is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design and implement platforms that manage distributed event streaming technologies at CVS Health. You will own features for database, messaging, and data warehouse platforms, mentoring engineers and shaping the technical roadmap.

You will collaborate with teams to build high-performance, data-intensive applications and contribute to automation, security, and scalability initiatives across cloud environments.