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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.

POSITION SUMMARY

CVS Health is building a world of health around every individual, creating a more connected, convenient, and compassionate experience. At CVS Health®, you will collaborate with passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, take accountability, and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger—simplifying health care for one person, one family and one community at a time.

The Staff Software Development Engineer is a key technical leader within the Developer Experience (DevEx) space, accountable for the development, operations and support of web-based tooling and platforms that empower CVS Health engineers. This role partners closely with DevEx technical leaders and senior enterprise stakeholders to ensure investments align with CVS Health’s strategic goals. The Staff Engineer defines the technical vision, architecture, and execution for an AI‑assisted, least‑privilege access platform, operating at a systems level to translate access governance objectives into scalable, secure, and developer‑centric solutions.

What we expect of you –

o Technical Architecture & Design

• Own the end-to-end architecture of the AI-assisted access model, ensuring it is scalable, explainable, and auditable.

• Partner with data and security teams to validate signal quality and model outcomes.

o Platform Engineering & Integration

• Establish clear APIs and automation workflows.

• Ensure the platform supports continuous access evaluation and lifecycle management.

o Security, Governance & Compliance

• Embed auditability, explainability, and policy enforcement into the platform by design.

• Collaborate with security, risk, and compliance stakeholders to ensure governance requirements are met without sacrificing developer velocity.

o Technical Leadership & Influence

• Function as a technical authority and mentor for junior engineers.

• Drive engineering best practices, design reviews, and architectural standards.

• Influence cross-team alignment across security, identity, platform, and developer experience organizations.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

· 7+ years of experience in large-scale software development, including 2+ years of experience in a technical lead role.

· 7+ years of experience with developing applications/web services and cloud-native apps using technologies like Java and React, Angular, Spring Boot, REST API, JPA, messaging and other tech stacks (open-source and proprietary)

· 5+ years of experience with agile development practices.

· 2+ years of experience with developing Agentic AI applications using foundational LLMs in Python

· 2+ years of experience with relational database using technologies like PostgreSQL.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· 5+ years of designing and developing highly scalable Microservices, Webservices, and Rest API’s

· 5+ years of designing and developing in a Test-Driven Development environment.

· 3+ years of experience with build and deploying services in CI/CD with using tools like Jenkins, CircleCI

· 3+ years of experience with source management tools like GitHub, GitLab

· 3+ years of experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)

· 3+ years of experience working in cloud platforms like Azure, GCP, AWS, etc.

· Experience in Accessibility (A11y) and web performance and stability best practices

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s degree from accredited university or equivalent work experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience).

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

Bring your heart to CVS Health Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver. Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play

in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient, and affordable. We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day. CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists, and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities.

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$106,605.00 - $284,280.00

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. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.

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 our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits – investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include:

• Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan .

• No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.

• Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.

For more information, visit https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 04/30/2026

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

CVS Health is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, including Disability/Protected Veteran — committed to diversity in the workplace.