CVS Health · 9 hours ago
Staff Software Development Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$118K/yr - $261K/yr
7+ years expCVS Health is building a world of health around every individual by creating a more connected health experience. The Staff Software Development Engineer will architect and implement scalable search systems and lead the design of search pipelines while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance search experiences.
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Responsibilities
Driving relevance and ranking improvements using techniques such as:
Query rewriting, synonym management, intent detection, and field boosting
Learning-to-rank, behavioral signals, and offline/online evaluation frameworks
Provide technical leadership in solution design and architecture reviews, partnering with principal engineers, architects, and product teams
Design and optimize event-driven systems using Kafka (or similar) for real-time indexing, user interaction signals, and search telemetry
Ensure systems meet performance, scalability, and reliability goals, including: Sub-100ms query latency targets High-throughput ingestion and near-real-time indexing Fault tolerance and graceful degradation
Lead and participate in deep code reviews, enforcing best practices in search engineering, distributed systems, and data correctness
Influence the adoption of new search technologies, tooling, and frameworks to improve developer productivity and search quality
Serve as a technical mentor, providing guidance to senior and junior engineers and raising the overall search engineering bar across the organization
Act as a multiplier, identifying systemic issues in search quality or platform reliability and driving long-term architectural improvements
Qualification
Required
7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant depth in search or data-intensive systems
3+ years of experience in: Information Retrieval concepts (inverted indexes, scoring models, relevance tuning) Query understanding, Relevancy and Ranking
Experience designing and operating distributed, event-driven systems using Kafka or equivalent messaging platforms
Demonstrated execution excellence, from design through production support
Growth mindset with a track record of mentoring engineers and raising technical standards
Experience with Search platforms: OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, and/or Solr
Preferred
Experience with learning-to-rank, personalization, or ML-assisted relevance systems
Hands-on experience with search experimentation frameworks, A/B testing, and offline evaluation
Background in high-scale consumer or enterprise search platforms
Familiarity with search analytics, click models, and behavioral signals
Benefits
Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.
No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.
Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.
Company
CVS Health
CVS Health is a health solutions company that provides an integrated healthcare services to its members.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$4BKey Investors
Michigan Economic Development CorporationStarboard Value
2025-08-15Post Ipo Debt· $4B
2025-07-17Grant· $1.5M
2019-11-25Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
David Joyner
President and Chief Executive Officer, CVS Health
Chandra McMahon
SVP & CISO
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