Principal Engineer API Platform

About the role

We are building a developer platform that sets the standard for how hundreds of engineers across Retail, Pharmacy, Health Solutions, and Aetna design, build, secure, and publish APIs. This is a senior, cross-cutting role with significant organizational influence. You will establish the engineering practices that teams build on, define how APIs are designed and governed at scale, and lead the effort to embed AI-powered capabilities into the developer experience itself.

Responsibilities

• API Design, Architecture & Governance
• Security & Compliance
• AI-Powered Developer Experience
• Technical Leadership & Platform Thinking
• Engineering Craft

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a meaningful portion spent designing and delivering APIs at enterprise scale
• 5+ years of direct experience with API security, including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, mTLS, rate limiting, and API threat modeling
• 5+ years working with API gateway products and API management platforms (e.g., Apigee, Kong, Azure APIM, or equivalent)
• 5+ years of backend development in Java/Spring Boot and/or Node.js
• 5+ years working with large public cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure), including the networking and identity primitives that underpin secure API delivery
• 3+ years of experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams in a principal, staff, or architect-level capacity
• 3+ years partnering with product management, architecture, and program management to shape roadmaps and deliver complex platform capabilities
• Experience building or operating an API catalog, developer portal, or internal developer platform
• Hands-on experience building AI-powered developer tooling, including LLM-integrated coding assistants, MCP servers, or AI-assisted API design workflows

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (Highschool diploma plus 4 years relevant work experience)

Pay

The Typical Pay Range For This Role Is $144,200.00 - $288,400.00 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.