Principal Software Engineer

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🕒 August 5

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

💵 $144.2k - $288.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack 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

• Lead end-to-end delivery of scalable, secure Generative AI services and applications across AWS Bedrock and Google Cloud Vertex AI • Architect and implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions using proprietary data from Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and BigQuery • Design function/tool-calling and multimodal input solutions integrating enterprise systems through secure service interfaces • Define multi-cloud AI reference architectures, golden paths, guardrails, ADRs, and SLOs • Implement Responsible AI practices including safety filters, policy-enforced guardrails, data minimization, and red-teaming playbooks • Partner with Security, Privacy, and Legal on HIPAA/PHI compliance, encryption, access control, and auditability • Build AI evaluation and observability frameworks covering groundedness, hallucination, relevance, toxicity, drift, cost attribution, and A/B testing • Drive AI FinOps practices including prompt optimization, caching, batching, and model selection • Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers and elevate coding and design standards • Monitor AI developments and translate advances into platform strategy and roadmaps

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive, hands-on IT experience spanning systems analysis, application design, application development, and leading engineering teams • 7+ years designing and developing modern microservices architectures and cost-effective APIs for enterprise-scale solutions • 7+ years managing stakeholder requirements and translating them into robust, secure, and scalable technical solutions • 5+ years building or leading large-scale, mission-critical applications focused on performance, resiliency, and security • 5+ years of hands-on delivery for enterprise cloud initiatives on AWS and/or Google Cloud, including architecture, deployment, and optimization • 5+ years implementing DevOps and CI/CD automation, including Kubernetes and Docker • 3+ years of software development emphasizing Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) • Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks and libraries such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Scikit-learn, and productionizing AI systems • Ability to influence architecture decisions, lead cross-functional teams, and deliver complex solutions in compliance-conscious environments • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; high school diploma plus 4 years of relevant work experience • Preferred: AWS Bedrock and/or Google Cloud Vertex AI experience • Preferred: RAG architectures, embeddings, chunking, retrieval/reranking, vector databases, and caching strategies • Preferred: Responsible AI, safety guardrails, bias/fairness testing, red-teaming, human-in-the-loop workflows, and policy compliance • Preferred: AI observability and evaluation, tracing/telemetry, cost attribution, A/B testing, groundedness, hallucination evaluation, and drift monitoring • Preferred: FinOps for AI workloads • Preferred: Terraform, CDK, GitOps, and event-driven architectures • Preferred: regulated-industry experience and knowledge of HIPAA/PHI, data governance, encryption, and access control • Preferred: multi-cloud awareness and vendor/model evaluation frameworks • Preferred: relevant AWS or Google Cloud certifications

🏖️ Benefits

• CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program • Award target in the company’s equity award program • Medical coverage • Dental coverage • Vision coverage • Paid time off • Retirement savings options • Wellness programs • Other resources supporting physical, emotional, and financial well-being