Senior Data Platform Engineer: Streaming & Performance

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

Job summary

CVS Health Corporation is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer on the Data & Performance Enablement team. You will design and implement platforms that manage distributed event streaming technologies and own features for database, messaging, and data warehouse platforms.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with customer teams, and contribute to the technical roadmap while driving performance, security, and automation. An on-call rotation is included as part of the role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of relevant experience designing and operating data platforms.
• Experience with Kafka and Redis messaging systems.
• Proficient with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and scripting (Bash, Python).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain components of the data platform for provisioning, backups, and user management.
• Troubleshoot performance and reliability issues and serve as an escalation point.
• Identify opportunities to improve data streaming services, security, and automation.
• Participate in on-call rotation to support critical services.
• Mentor junior engineers on DBRE concepts and query optimization.
• Contribute to the technical roadmap by researching new data technologies.

Skills

Kafka

Redis

IaC

Bash

Python

Azure

AWS

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Job description

CVS Health Corporation is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer on the Data & Performance Enablement team. You will design and implement platforms that manage distributed event streaming technologies and own features for database, messaging, and data warehouse platforms.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with customer teams, and contribute to the technical roadmap while driving performance, security, and automation. An on-call rotation is included as part of the role.