Hiring: Software Engineer - SRE, Retail & Pharmacy Company: CVS Health Location: Woonsocket, RI Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 00:55:45 Employment Type: Full-time / Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Ansible, ArgoCD, Azure, Bash, CI/CD, Change Management, CircleCI, Confluence, Datadog, Docker, Dynatrace, ELK Stack, GCP, GitHub Actions, GitOps, Grafana, Helm, Istio, Jaeger, Java, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Linkerd, Microservices, Node.js, OpenTelemetry, Performance Testing, Prometheus, Pulumi, Python, SSE, Service Mesh, Splunk, Terraform About the job Experience: •2+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, or related technology roles with production systems responsibility •2+ years of experience delivering software in large-scale distributed environments with hands-on application of reliability and resilience concepts •1+ year of experience with at least one programming language at production quality: Python, Go, Bash, or Java •1+ year of hands-on cloud platform experience: AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Required Skills: •, and Developer Experience (DevX) •Our operating principle is what we call the reliability covenant •Operational toil as an engineering metric •, not as a permanent operational reality. Engineers are expected to identify recurring manual work, eliminate it through automation, and document the reduction. Toil accumulation is treated as a reliability risk and a capacity cost. •As a Software Engineer — SRE •, you are a practitioner-level contributor focused on building and running reliable distributed systems. You work within assigned services and domains implementing observability, improving alerting quality, responding to incidents, writing automation, and contributing to the reliability programs that run across the organization. •Service and task level, you execute with direction and grow toward autonomous ownership. •The environment you are joining Qualifications: •Practical experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, Datadog, or Dynatrace •Foundational understanding of containerization and orchestration with Kubernetes and Docker. Experience with AI-assisted tooling and development. •Comfort contributing to processes that are being defined, not just processes that already exist, ability to operate productively in an environment under active transformation •Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders in incident and postmortem contexts •Exposure to incident management, change management, and problem management processes (ITIL familiarity a plus) •Operational familiarity with time-series anomaly detection concepts; understanding of how ML-generated signals differ from rule-based alerting •Exposure to microservices architecture, service mesh (Istio, Linkerd), and cloud-native distributed systems patterns •Basic experience with infrastructure-as-code: Terraform, Ansible, or Pulumi Compensation: •$72,100 - $158,620 / year •Competitive benefits and rewards package •This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!