Principal Software Engineer

At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.

As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

Position Summary

CVS Health is transforming digital healthcare by building cohesive, scalable platform solutions that enable smarter, simpler, and more human-centered experiences. Come join a dedicated team of Engineers committed to excellence! Be part of a fast-paced, innovative, and collaborative environment with a focus on driving enterprise automation in support of top priorities across the organization.

As a Principal Software Development Engineer, you will collaborate with product, technology, and engineering teams to create exciting new solutions that will span various technologies and environments, including data offerings in the public cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure) and private/hybrid cloud. The Principal Software Development Engineer must be a strategic thinker with a growth mindset and a curiosity for new and emerging technologies, patterns, methodologies, and market offerings. The Principal Software Development Engineer will lead strategy, design and implementation, and possess excellent communications skills.

• You'll lead efforts to design, build, and deploy infrastructure capabilities for relational database technologies in public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Drive the creation of automation for relational database infrastructure services to improve delivery and speed-to-market.
• Collaborate with security, architecture, and engineering teams to establish and enforce standards and best practices.
• Experience in implementing cloud networking concepts, zero trust network policies, and network simplification.
• Partner with product and program teams to define roadmaps and execution plans.
• Build APIs to orchestrate automation exposing self-service capabilities to improve customer experiences.
• Drive initiatives to incorporate open-source tools, cloud native services, and AI to increase efficiency.
• Elevate talent through mentorship and guidance of more junior software engineers.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years’ experience as a multi-faceted Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer or similar role delivering automated infrastructure solutions at an enterprise scale.
• 7+ years’ experience in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, and strong experience with infrastructure as code (IaC), specifically Terraform and Ansible.
• 5+ years’ experience working with modern database and caching technologies (eg. MondoDB, PostgreSQL, BigTable, Neo4J, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticache)
• 5+ years’ experience using and administering build automation, continuous integration, and source code management CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Octopus, Jenkins, etc.)
• 5+ years’ experience with cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, AWS) as well as on-prem environments (VMware)
• 5+ development experience using Restful APIs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Container development (Kubernetes, Rancher, OpenShift, GKS, EKS, AKS)
• Experience with Test Driven Development
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies (SAFe, Kanban, XP)
• Experience with AI assisted software development
• Experience with microservice and service mesh architectures

Education

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$144,200.00 - $288,400.00

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: 10/31/2025

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