Staff Software Engineer – Cost Estimation & Navigation AI

CVS Health Corporation; Iowa (LA); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity award

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to design, build, and deliver cloud-based applications within a distributed system on Google Cloud Platform. You will contribute to architecture, design, and implementation across microservices and APIs to enable scalable, reliable solutions.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product, data science, and security teams, and ensure compliance with regulatory and privacy requirements while advancing AI/GenAI-enabled capabilities

Qualifications

• 7+ years delivering enterprise-scale software in distributed systems.
• 5+ years in Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript.
• 5+ years building cloud-based enterprise solutions.
• 5+ years developing modern microservices and scalable APIs.
• 3+ years with CI/CD, automated testing, and DevOps.
• 3+ years containerization with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with AI/GenAI platforms.

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.
• Evaluate existing architectures and recommend improvements to reliability, operability, flexibility, and cost efficiency.
• Lead proof-of-concept development and technical exploration for emerging technologies, including AI/GenAI-enabled 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 and organizational boundaries.
• Ensure solutions are designed and delivered in compliance with regulatory, privacy, and security requirements, including secure handling of PII and PHI data.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

AI/GenAI

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

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 within a distributed system on Google Cloud Platform. You will contribute to architecture, design, and implementation across microservices and APIs to enable scalable, reliable solutions.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product, data science, and security teams, and ensure compliance with regulatory and privacy requirements while advancing AI/GenAI-enabled capabilities