Senior Platform Software Engineer

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

Job Description

We’re looking for a Senior Platform Software Engineer who thrives at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, backend engineering, and developer enablement. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys building secure, scalable platforms that abstract complexity away from product teams, while still being close to the underlying systems.

You’ll design and operate shared AI-native platforms that power application delivery, cloud-native services, CI/CD pipelines, and operational tooling. You’ll collaborate closely with SRE, security, and product engineering teams to ensure the platform is reliable, self-service, and built for scale.

This is not a traditional ops role, and it’s not purely application development. The focus is on productizing infrastructure and backend capabilities as platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Platform & Cloud Engineering

• Design, build, and operate cloud-native platforms on AWS (or equivalent), emphasizing scalability, availability, security, and cost efficiency
• Embed AI‑assisted and agentic workflows into CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure provisioning, incident response, and operational tooling
• Develop and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Build and support shared cloud services such as networking, IAM patterns, managed data services, observability tooling, and service templates
• Partner with SRE and security teams to embed reliability, compliance, and guardrails into platform workflows

Backend & Systems Development

• Design and build backend services, APIs, and internal platforms that enable other teams to move faster
• Develop automation and tooling using modern backend languages (e.g., Go, Python, Kotlin, Node, or similar)
• Contribute to service architecture decisions, including service-to-service communication patterns, data access strategies, and resiliency models
• Review code and architectural designs with a focus on performance, operability, and long-term maintainability

Developer Enablement

• Create self-service interfaces, documentation, and workflows that reduce friction for application teams
• Enable product teams to consume AI‑powered platform capabilities through secure, self‑service interfaces
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and deployment strategies
• Advocate for platform-as-a-product thinking: usability, adoption, and developer experience matter
• Partner with product managers and engineers to understand developer pain points and translate them into platform capabilities

Technical Leadership

• Act as a senior technical contributor and mentor to other engineers
• Influence standards and best practices across infrastructure, backend, and platform design
• Participate in architecture reviews and contribute to longer-term platform roadmap discussions
• Lead by example in operational excellence, incident response, and post-incident learning

Required Qualifications

• Strong experience in cloud infrastructure engineering and backend service development
• Demonstrated experience for working in AI‑native engineering environments, where AI tools, agents, and automation are treated as core collaborators in the development process
• Hands-on experience with: 
  • AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS/Aurora, S3, IAM, VPC, etc.)
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform strongly preferred)

• One or more backend languages (Go, Python, Kotlin, Node, Java, etc.)

• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts: scalability, resilience, observability, and failure modes
• Experience building or operating CI/CD pipelines and release automation
• Ability to think in terms of platforms and products, not just individual systems
• Comfort working with abstractions while still understanding what’s underneath
• Experience enabling other teams through tooling, automation, and guardrails
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially for explaining complex systems clearly
• Self-starting, able to contribute to roadmap, and take initiative with features and user stories

Preferred Qualifications

• Full stack experience (React, frontend tooling, or internal UI development), though not required
• Familiarity with LLM platforms, agent frameworks, or AI‑enabled developer tooling (commercial or open source)

• Experience with Kubernetes, service meshes, or container orchestration platforms

• Familiarity with security and compliance concepts in regulated environments

• Prior experience on SRE, product, platform, or internal tooling teams

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred/specialized training/relevant professional qualification.

Anticipated Weekly Hours

40

Time Type

Full time

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$83,430.00 - $166,860.00

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls.  The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors.  This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. 
 

Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.

This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.

Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 10/05/2026

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.