Senior Data Platform Engineer - Real-Time Streaming

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

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer on the Data & Performance Enablement team to shape and implement platforms that manage distributed event streaming technologies. You will own features for our database, messaging, and data warehouse platforms, mentor engineers, and contribute to the technical roadmap.

This role emphasizes high-performance, data-intensive systems, incident on-call rotations, and collaboration with customer teams to deliver scalable solutions while upholding safety

Qualifications

• 5 years of applicable experience.
• Strong experience with messaging platforms (Kafka/Redis).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Proficient in at least one scripting language (e.g., Bash, Python).
• Solid experience with at least one major cloud provider (Azure or AWS).

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 of experience

Messaging platforms (Kafka/Redis)

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Scripting (Bash, Python)

Cloud providers (Azure or AWS)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub Actions

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer on the Data & Performance Enablement team to shape and implement platforms that manage distributed event streaming technologies. You will own features for our database, messaging, and data warehouse platforms, mentor engineers, and contribute to the technical roadmap.

This role emphasizes high-performance, data-intensive systems, incident on-call rotations, and collaboration with customer teams to deliver scalable solutions while upholding safety