Principal Engineer, API Platform

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🕒 July 23

🌽 Illinois, New York, +2 more states – Remote

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💵 $144.2k - $288.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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CVS Health

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1963

🏥 Healthcare

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🛒 Retail

Healthcare • Healthcare Insurance • Retail

CVS Health is a leading American healthcare company dedicated to improving health access and affordability. The company focuses on a comprehensive approach that includes health services, health insurance, and pharmacy benefits management. Through its subsidiaries, such as Aetna and CVS Caremark, CVS Health offers a range of services that facilitate wellness, condition management, and affordable prescription drug coverage. CVS Health operates neighborhood pharmacies, provides mail-order pharmacy services, and manages specialty medication programs, aiming to make healthcare convenient and accessible for everyone. Driven by a mission to connect people with essential care services, CVS Health is committed to fostering healthier communities and supporting the wellbeing of all individuals.

📋 Description

• own the technical direction and architecture across several teams building API capabilities • establish the engineering practices that teams build on • define how APIs are designed and governed at scale • lead the effort to embed AI-powered capabilities into the developer experience • lead the design and delivery of AI capabilities embedded into the developer platform • architect and build MCP servers exposing the enterprise API catalog as a queryable context • participate in architecture reviews, design documents, and pull requests

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a meaningful portion spent designing and delivering APIs at enterprise scale • 5+ years of direct experience with API security, including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, mTLS, rate limiting, and API threat modeling • 5+ years working with API gateway products and API management platforms (e.g., Apigee, Kong, Azure APIM, or equivalent) • 5+ years of backend development in Java/Spring Boot and/or Node.js • 5+ years working with large public cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure), including the networking and identity primitives that underpin secure API delivery • 3+ years of experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams in a principal, staff, or architect-level capacity • 3+ years partnering with product management, architecture, and program management to shape roadmaps and deliver complex platform capabilities • Experience building or operating an API catalog, developer portal, or internal developer platform • Experience with GraphQL schema design and federation at scale. • Experience with mature CI/CD practices, source control, automated testing, and contract-first API development

🏖️ Benefits

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