Senior Platform Engineer, Data & Streaming Performance

CVS Health; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Bonus eligibility

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

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

You will work on provision automation, troubleshooting, on-call escalation, and cross-team collaboration to deliver scalable data solutions for our engineering customers.

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 (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 database administration, query optimization, and DBRE principles.
• Contribute to the technical roadmap by researching new data technologies and proposing innovative solutions.

Skills

Kafka/Redis

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Scripting (Bash/Python)

Cloud providers (Azure/AWS)

5+ years experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Job description

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

You will work on provision automation, troubleshooting, on-call escalation, and cross-team collaboration to deliver scalable data solutions for our engineering customers.