Senior Software Engineer - SRE, Retail and Pharmacy

CVS Health

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Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Woonsocket
Salary
$92,700–$203,940 / yr
Posted
32 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Oct 31, 2026

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $169k
This role $148k
$79k most similar roles pay here $224k

This role pays less than 88% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$187,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $148k versus about $169k for comparable roles.

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About CVS Health

CVS Health is a leading American healthcare company operating retail pharmacies, pharmacy benefit management services, and a health insurance segment through Aetna, one of the nation''s largest health insurers. Industry: Healthcare & Pharmacy

CVS Health currently has 88 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $118,450–$284,280 across 84 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer - SRE, Retail and Pharmacy

Senior Software Engineer - SRE, Retail and Pharmacy joins the Site Reliability Engineering team to ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of distributed store technology across pharmacy platforms, point of sale systems, and edge computing infrastructure. You will independently own the reliability posture of an assigned domain by designing alerting strategies, managing SLI/SLO health, leading incident command for production issues, and conducting postmortems to eliminate recurring failures. The role involves building automated tools in Python, Go, or Bash to reduce operational toil while implementing chaos engineering experiments using LitmusChaos or Gremlin. You will work with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Kubernetes within a hybrid cloud environment. This position addresses the critical challenge of maintaining stable pharmacy dispensing workflows and retail operations across thousands of locations where technical failures directly impact patient care and store functionality.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

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What you'll do

  • Own SLI/SLO health and design multi-signal alerting strategies including ML-based anomaly detection for assigned domains.
  • Lead incident command as the primary Technical Incident Commander during production issues and facilitate structured postmortems.
  • Develop and maintain runbooks with validated remediation procedures to ensure rapid recovery from failures.
  • Conduct Production Readiness Reviews (PRR) and perform fault injection experiments to validate system resilience.
  • Automate manual operational tasks using Python, Go, or Bash to systematically eliminate toil.
  • Build self-service observability tools and dashboards to empower development teams to manage their own service health.
  • Drive the adoption of SRE practices across engineering teams by building credibility through demonstrated value.
  • Monitor DORA metrics to identify and target specific areas for reliability investments and improvements.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
  • 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, or related production-systems roles.
  • 3+ years operating cloud-native distributed systems at production scale with active on-call responsibility.
  • Demonstrated experience as an on-call Incident Commander for P1 or P2 incidents involving structured bridge leadership.
  • Experience tuning and validating time-series anomaly detection models in a production observability context.
  • Strong programming proficiency in Python, Go, or Java to develop operational tooling at production quality.
  • Hands-on experience designing SLIs, SLOs, and managing error budgets for critical services.
  • Proven ability to drive SRE practice adoption in engineering teams without formal authority (required).

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