Distinguished Engineer, Developer Experience

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❄️ Minnesota – Remote

❄️ Minnesota – Remote

💵 $175.1k - $334.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🤝 Developer Relations (DevRel)

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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 technical architecture, standards, and technical direction for a core domain within DevEx's platform engineering portfolio • Serve as the highest-level technical escalation point • Partner with Acceleration leadership and engineering teams to align internal developer platform investments, including CAP, CI/CD, and software supply chain security capabilities • Influence architecture decisions across Acceleration platforms, particularly platform interoperability, AI-enabled systems, observability, and edge computing patterns • Lead the organization's AI-enabled Software Development Lifecycle strategy • Evaluate and drive adoption of AI coding assistants, agentic development tools, and AI-powered engineering workflows • Shape AI-driven software planning, development, testing, deployment, and operational processes • Lead DevEx's open source strategy, including identifying open-source opportunities and supporting licensing and intellectual property considerations • Champion the evolution of key platforms, including Flip, toward open, AI-driven, and edge-enabled solutions • Engage with open source communities and establish best practices for open source consumption and contribution • Influence senior and principal engineers and engineering leaders to elevate technical standards and engineering excellence • Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions for developer productivity platforms, secrets management, AI infrastructure, and engineering tooling • Lead technical due diligence for vendor and open source technology selections, including API gateways, feature flagging solutions, developer portals, and platform engineering capabilities

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant technical leadership experience in Principal, Staff+, or Distinguished Engineer roles • Proven success leading technical strategy and architecture within large-scale enterprise environments, preferably supporting organizations with 10,000+ engineers • Deep hands-on expertise with internal developer platforms, Kubernetes-based infrastructure, cloud-native technologies, and CI/CD ecosystems • Strong experience with AI-assisted software development, including coding assistants, agentic development frameworks, and AI-enabled SDLC practices • Demonstrated track record of influencing technical strategy and architectural decisions across organizational boundaries without direct reporting authority • Active participation and credibility within open source communities through contribution, maintenance, or leadership of open source projects • Exceptional stakeholder management, executive communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills • Experience evaluating and implementing modern developer tooling, platform engineering solutions, and software delivery technologies • Experience with API gateway technologies such as Apigee, Kong, Azure API Management (APIM), or similar enterprise API platforms • Background working with feature flagging platforms, developer portals, software supply chain security, or platform engineering products • Experience operating in highly regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services, or other compliance-driven environments • Demonstrated success leading enterprise-wide AI transformation initiatives and scaling AI-enabled engineering practices across large organizations • Experience developing, governing, or accelerating enterprise open source strategies and community engagement programs • Strong understanding of observability, edge computing architectures, and modern developer experience best practices • Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, information systems, or a related quantitative discipline, or equivalent work experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical coverage • Dental coverage • Vision coverage • Paid time off • Retirement savings options • Wellness programs • Other resources supporting physical, emotional, and financial well-being • CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program • Equity award program