Staff SDE: AI-Driven Healthcare Cost & Navigation

CVS Health Corporation; Minnesota; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

CVS Health Corporation seeks a Staff Software Development Engineer to design, build, and deliver modern cloud-based applications within a complex distributed system on Google Cloud Platform. You will guide architecture, drive scalable solutions, and mentor engineers across the Cost Estimation & Navigation AI portfolio.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product, data science, and engineering teams to translate business needs into production-ready systems while ensuring security, performance,

Qualifications

• 7+ years delivering enterprise-scale software in distributed systems.
• 5+ years in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript.
• 5+ years designing and operating cloud-based enterprise solutions.
• 5+ years of experience designing and developing modern microservices and scalable APIs.
• 3+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and DevOps practices.
• 3+ years of experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working with AI/GenAI platforms and applying intelligent capabilities within software products.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable software solutions within the Cost Estimation & Navigation AI portfolio.
• Drive architecture and technical design across distributed services, APIs, and platform components to support scalability, resiliency, security, and long-term maintainability.
• Partner with product, data science, and engineering teams to translate business priorities into production-ready technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership across complex initiatives by guiding implementation decisions, managing dependencies, and addressing engineering tradeoffs.
• Design, build, and enhance cloud-native applications, microservices, and APIs using modern service, interface, and messaging patterns.
• Define and ensure achievement of non-functional requirements, including performance, availability, failover, scalability, and security.
• Evaluate existing architectures and recommend improvements to reliability, operability, flexibility, and cost efficiency.
• Lead PoC development for emerging technologies, including AI/GenAI capabilities relevant to portfolio needs.
• Apply knowledge of data and analytics technologies, including orchestration, non-relational data stores, caching, and large-scale service integration patterns.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering excellence through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance.
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders to build alignment across teams.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, privacy, and security requirements, including secure handling of PII and PHI data.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript

CI/CD

Docker/Kubernetes

AI/GenAI

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GKE

Cloud Run

Pub/Sub

Cloud SQL

IAM

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Job description

CVS Health Corporation seeks a Staff Software Development Engineer to design, build, and deliver modern cloud-based applications within a complex distributed system on Google Cloud Platform. You will guide architecture, drive scalable solutions, and mentor engineers across the Cost Estimation & Navigation AI portfolio.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product, data science, and engineering teams to translate business needs into production-ready systems while ensuring security, performance,