Staff SDE: Cost Estimation & AI Navigation (Cloud-Native)

CVS Health Corporation; Utah; Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to design, build, and deliver cloud-based applications in a distributed environment on Google Cloud Platform. You will influence architecture, mentor engineers, and drive scalable solutions that simplify healthcare navigation for members and providers.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product, data science, and engineering teams, ensuring secure, cost-efficient, and high‑performance systems while advancing the long-term technical

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience delivering enterprise-scale software solutions in distributed systems environments.
• 5+ years of experience in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript.
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience designing, building, and operating cloud‑based enterprise solutions.
• 5+ years of experience designing and developing modern microservices and scalable, cost‑effective APIs.
• 3+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and DevOps practices.
• 3+ years of experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as 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 and portfolio use cases 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.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

AI/GenAI platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GKE

Cloud Run

Pub/Sub

Cloud SQL

IAM

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to design, build, and deliver cloud-based applications in a distributed environment on Google Cloud Platform. You will influence architecture, mentor engineers, and drive scalable solutions that simplify healthcare navigation for members and providers.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product, data science, and engineering teams, ensuring secure, cost-efficient, and high‑performance systems while advancing the long-term technical