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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

At CVS Health, we're reimagining how software is built and delivered by creating a frictionless, intuitive developer experience. Our goal is to make writing, testing, and deploying software as seamless and efficient as possible, empowering engineering teams across a diverse set of business units to focus on innovation, not infrastructure.

As a Principal Engineer on the Developer Tooling team, you will lead the creation of tools, APIs, and automation that simplify the development lifecycle. You'll be laser-focused on delivering high-quality, scalable tooling, ensuring teams can confidently build, deploy, and operate their software. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader who is passionate about crafting elegant solutions that elevate the developer experience and accelerate software delivery.

_Key Responsibilities_

+ Lead the design and implementation of developer tooling, including APIs, CLI tools, and self-service platforms

+ Manage and scale GitHub Actions Runner pools to meet the performance and reliability needs of hundreds of engineering teams

+ Define, implement, and uphold product SLAs/SLOs for all developer tools

+ Build custom applications and integrations to bridge gaps in existing tools and workflows

+ Champion engineering best practices including test automation, clean code, and secure development

+ Collaborate with architects, product managers, and engineering leaders to define the vision and roadmap for developer tooling

+ Drive adoption of observability standards across teams to ensure system health, performance, and reliability

+ Mentor and support engineers across the organization, fostering a culture of learning and technical excellence

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

+ 10+ years of hands-on backend development experience with enterprise-scale applications

+ 5+ yeas hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Octopus Deploy, and Artifactory

+ 5+ years of experience with Kubernetes, including deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications in production environments

+ 5+ years of experience with public cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)

+ Proven experience managing GitHub Actions Runners at scale in a secure and cost-effective manner

+ Extensive experience designing and authoring GitHub Actions pipelines, including reusable workflows. Demonstrated ability to optimize pipeline performance

+ Strong background in backend technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, Golang, Kafka, PostgreSQL

+ Experience defining and maintaining SLAs/SLOs for internal platforms or services

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

+ Deep understanding of infrastructure architecture and platform engineering principles

+ Experience with platform observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)

+ Experience managing JFrog Artifactory at scale, including repository design, access control, artifact lifecycle management, and integration with CI/CD pipelines

+ Strong communication and leadership skills with a track record of mentoring engineers

+ Ability to evaluate and introduce emerging technologies to improve developer productivity

+ Hands-on experience building custom developer tools or internal platforms

+ Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments and collaborating across cross-functional teams

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s degree or, equivalent 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:

$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.

We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. 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.