Staff Software Development Engineer – Fulfillment

CVS Health

Staff Software Development Engineer focusing on backend services for CVS Health's digital innovation. Collaborating to build data products aimed at improving health outcomes.

Posted 5/29/2026full-timeLouisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Rhode Island • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $106,605 - $284,280 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesNoSQLSDLCSpringSpring BootSpringBootSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Architect, design, and implement highly scalable, fault tolerant, cloud native services using container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes) and fully automated CI/CD pipelines following DevOps principles
Apply advanced software engineering practices across the full SDLC—including domain driven design (DDD), design patterns, secure coding, automated testing strategies (unit, contract, integration), code quality gates, trunk based development, and continuous observability
Troubleshoot and lead resolution of complex distributed system issues, including data consistency challenges, cross service dependency failures, performance bottlenecks, and distributed tracing analysis using tools
Collaborate with product, architecture, and business stakeholders to define long term technical roadmaps, shape functional and non functional requirements, influence prioritization, and define measurable KPIs to evaluate engineering and business outcomes
Design and enforce microservice resiliency patterns such as circuit breakers, bulkheads, retries with exponential backoff, rate limiting, and service discovery, ensuring consistent adherence across all service integrations
Build and optimize real time streaming data pipelines leveraging event streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub) and CDC frameworks to propagate data from SQL/NoSQL stores to analytics and ML systems with strict latency and throughput requirements
Collaborate closely with engineering, platform, and business teams to deliver cost optimized, scalable solutions—leveraging cloud cost profiling tools, storage tiering strategies, service right sizing, and architectural simplification
Own the reliability, performance, and lifecycle of existing platforms, including production support, SRE aligned operational excellence, automated recovery strategies, and incremental modernization/refactoring
Influence and standardize the use of emerging technologies, frameworks, and tooling to streamline development processes and advance overall search quality
Lead technical risk assessments, architectural reviews, compliance validation, and engineering audit activities, providing mitigation strategies aligned with security, governance, and regulatory frameworks
Mentor and develop engineers across levels, providing architectural guidance, conducting design reviews, establishing engineering standards, and promoting a culture of technical excellence and knowledge sharing

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ plus years of software development in enterprise / web / cloud applications
7+ years of backend software development experience with programming languages/tools including: Java, Spring Boot, Kafka
3+ years of distributed caching experience
3+ years of experience having a track record developing in AWS or GCP or Azure or similar public cloud environments (GCP preferred)
3+ years of experience in design, development and operationalizing microservices based web/webservices application in cloud native environment
3+ years of technical lead experience within a matrixed environment, including mentoring junior engineers and working cross collaboratively between architecture, product, etc.

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

JavaSpring BootKubernetesKafkaPub/SubmicroservicesCI/CDautomated testingdistributed cachingcloud native

Soft Skills

mentoringcollaborationtechnical leadershipinfluencingproblem solvingcommunicationarchitectural guidanceknowledge sharingstakeholder engagementcross-functional teamwork