Senior Performance Engineer

Bring your heart to CVS Health. Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.
 
Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable.

Position Summary:
Join our dynamic Performance Engineering team, focused on ensuring high-quality, performant systems and applications. As we transition our code base to the cloud and modernize our technology stack, we are looking for a motivated Performance Engineer with a strong Java background, experience being a key contributor in SRE operations and experience with cloud platforms.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in Performance Engineering or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in Java Spring Boot and knowledge of Java-based performance optimization
• Understanding of cloud platforms (GCP or Azure) and Kubernetes, AKS or GKE.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency with performance testing and monitoring tools, including JMeter, LoadRunner, Splunk, AppDynamics, Grafana
• Competency with APIs & microservices-based design
• Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) concepts and techniques, including deep learning, natural language processing, generative AI, and computer vision
• Knowledge of infrastructure monitoring and scripting (Shell, Python)
• Knowledge of container orchestration and microservices design
• Familiarity with distributed systems and version control (Git)
• Experience designing, implementing, and  delivering automations to execute performance tests to identify bottlenecks and optimize system performance
• Analyze performance test results and collaborate with engineering teams to resolve issues
• Work with cross-functional teams to understand performance requirements and integrate performance testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Identify performance bottlenecks that impact cloud-native workloads, tune and collaborate with other software teams to improve performance

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or, equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$130,295.00 – $260,590.00

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls.  The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors.  This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.  This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program. 
 
In addition to your compensation, enjoy the rewards of an organization that puts our heart into caring for our colleagues and our communities.  The Company offers a full range of medical, dental, and vision benefits.  Eligible employees may enroll in the Company’s 401(k) retirement savings plan, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also available for eligible employees.  The Company provides a fully-paid term life insurance plan to eligible employees, and short-term and long term disability benefits. CVS Health also offers numerous well-being programs, education assistance, free development courses, a CVS store discount, and discount programs with participating partners.  As for time off, Company employees enjoy Paid Time Off (“PTO”) or vacation pay, as well as paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Number of paid holidays, sick time and other time off are provided consistent with relevant state law and Company policies. 
 
For more detailed information on available benefits, please visit Benefits CVS Health

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 12/22/2024

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.