Senior Data Platform Engineer: Real-Time Streams

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

Job summary

CVS Health in the United States is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer on the Data & Performance Enablement team to design and implement platforms that manage distributed event streaming technologies.

You will own the development of key features for database, messaging, and data warehouse platforms, mentor engineers, and shape the technical roadmap for your area.

This full-time role emphasizes reliability, security, and scalable data systems to support our engineering teams and business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5 years of applicable experience.
• 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.
• 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 exp

Kafka

Redis

IaC

Python

Cloud (Azure/AWS)

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Tools

GitHub Actions

Job description

CVS Health in the United States is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer on the Data & Performance Enablement team to design and implement platforms that manage distributed event streaming technologies.

You will own the development of key features for database, messaging, and data warehouse platforms, mentor engineers, and shape the technical roadmap for your area.

This full-time role emphasizes reliability, security, and scalable data systems to support our engineering teams and business outcomes.