Staff Software Engineer (Agentic AI & Cloud Solutions) at CVS Health
Atlanta, GA
$106,605–$260,590from the description
Jul 14, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A staff-level engineering role on CVS Health's Claims Adjudication team, focused on designing and building enterprise-scale agentic AI systems — including multi-agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, vector databases, and LLM integrations — alongside cloud-native APIs and microservices on Azure or GCP. The position also carries technical leadership responsibilities: setting standards, mentoring junior engineers, and guiding cross-functional teams on complex AI-driven initiatives.
Staff level · 7+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,200 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 510–1,800
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (10)
The role is titled 'Staff Software Engineer' and the JD explicitly calls for cross-team technical direction, mentoring, and org-wide standards-setting — the Staff seniority band is genuinely supported here, not just advertised.
The alt SOC (15-2051 Data Scientists) reflects the significant ML/Agentic AI design and deployment scope; however, the primary framing is software engineering (APIs, microservices, cloud-native, CI/CD), so 15-1252 is the primary code.
The pay range ($106,605–$260,590/year) is described as the base salary range for the job grade; actual offer depends on experience, education, and geography. Bonus, short-term incentive, and equity award are also mentioned but not quantified.
Angular and Java Spring Boot appear together in the same required-qualifications bullet ('tools like Angular, Java Spring Boot'); both are treated as hard gates per section placement, though the 'like' qualifier suggests some substitution flexibility — no specific alternatives were named.
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is referenced extensively in the responsibilities and is implicitly required given the 2+ years of agentic AI experience gate; it is listed as a hard gate accordingly.
Healthcare domain knowledge and RxClaim/PBM adjudication experience appear only under Preferred Qualifications.
Python is required at 3+ years (hard gate); 5+ years of Python is listed separately under Preferred Qualifications as a higher bar.
The degree requirement is None — the JD states 'Bachelors or equivalent experience.'
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): multi-agent orchestration.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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