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

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This role $148k
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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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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 a domain's reliability posture 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 to reduce toil and partnering with engineering teams to shift reliability left into the design phase. Key technologies include Python, Go, Java, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Apache Kafka. You will manage a large-scale fleet of unattended nodes where configuration propagation is a primary risk. This role addresses critical infrastructure supporting pharmacy dispensing and store operations across thousands of locations in a high-stakes healthcare environment.

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What you'll do

  • Own the SLI/SLO health and design multi-signal alerting strategies for assigned engineering domains.
  • Tune and maintain ML-based anomaly detection models to reduce alert fatigue and improve signal quality.
  • Lead incident command as a Technical Incident Commander, managing bridge calls and authoring detailed runbooks.
  • Conduct structured post-incident reviews to identify root causes and implement systemic improvements.
  • Execute fault injection experiments and manage production readiness gates for new service deployments.
  • Automate manual operational tasks using Python, Go, or Bash to eliminate recurring toil.
  • Mentor software engineers on SRE practices and advocate for reliability during the design phase.
  • Manage large-scale fleet operations including canary rollouts and blast radius assessments for edge devices.

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.
  • 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).
  • Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and a log aggregation solution like Loki, Splunk, or Elasticsearch.
  • Expertise in AWS, Azure, or GCP with advanced Kubernetes operations including networking and resource management.
  • Familiarity with fleet-scale deployment strategies, blast radius management, and configuration drift.
  • Experience owning Production Readiness Reviews or service launch gates (preferred).
  • Hands-on chaos or fault injection experience using LitmusChaos, Chaos Toolkit, or Gremlin (preferred).
  • TIC certification or equivalent structured incident command training (preferred).
  • Experience in retail, pharmacy, healthcare, or other operationally sensitive environments (preferred).
  • LLM integration for operational use cases such as alert summarization or runbook suggestion (preferred).
  • Experience with streaming data platforms like Apache Kafka, Redpanda, or Flink (preferred).
  • Familiarity with analytical databases like ClickHouse, Druid, or TimescaleDB (preferred).
  • Experience with service mesh and traffic management tools like Istio, Envoy, or Linkerd (preferred).
  • Infrastructure-as-code proficiency using Terraform, Pulumi, or Ansible (preferred).

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