Senior Platform Engineer – Cloud, Backend Services

CVS Health

Senior Software Development Engineer designing and building backend services and integrations for CVS Health. Collaborating with teams to improve engineering practices and meet clinical requirements.

Posted 5/22/2026full-timeRemote • Connecticut • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $83,430 - $222,480 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformJenkinsMicroservices

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

design, build, and support backend services and integrations that enable Clinical Shared Services technical engineering work across clinical platforms
contribute to modernization initiatives, troubleshoot complex production issues through root-cause analysis, and improve automation and delivery practices that increase reliability, reduce risk, and improve time-to-market in a regulated healthcare environment
Collaborate closely with Clinical products, QA, architects, vendors, and production support to meet clinical, operational, and compliance requirements

Requirements

What you’ll need

7 to 10+ years of related experience
Demonstrated accountability for delivering outcomes on time, with high quality, and with clear communication to business and IT stakeholders
Ability to understand business drivers and architectural context to align backlog/work to the highest-value outcomes, and to manage cross-team dependencies to reduce timeline/cost risk
Strong problem-solving skills, including defect/issue triage and root-cause analysis in production environments
Strong collaboration and communication skills to influence across cross-functional stakeholders (business, architects, QA, vendors, production support)
Experience building or supporting secure integrations, including certificate management/rotation and secure secrets handling
Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery routines (planning, standups, retrospectives, demos)
Experience driving process improvements (engineering best practices, release readiness, quality/security practices)
Proven strength in production oversight, root-cause analysis, and driving resolution of issues, delays, or outages to protect SLAs/availability and business continuity
Experience proactively identifying process improvements and cost-savings through DevSecOps practices and thoughtful adoption of new technology
Experience with CI/CD tooling and automated deployments (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo CD, or similar)
Strong engineering fundamentals (coding standards, guidelines, and best practices) and a customer-first mindset in building reliable solutions
Experience designing and building APIs in a microservices architecture
Hands-on cloud experience (GCP, AWS, or Azure), including deploying and operating services in cloud environments
Experience with relational databases and data troubleshooting

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical, dental, and vision coverage
paid time off
retirement savings options
wellness programs
other resources, based on eligibility

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Hard Skills & Tools

backend servicesintegrationsroot-cause analysisautomationAgileScrumCI/CDAPIsmicroservices architecturerelational databases

Soft Skills

problem-solvingcollaborationcommunicationaccountabilityinfluenceprocess improvementcustomer-first mindsetcross-team dependency managementdefect triageproduction oversight