Senior Developer Experience Engineer

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Senior Developer Experience Engineer

As a Senior Developer Experience Engineer at CoverMyMeds, you'll play a dual role supporting the launch and evolution of a new foundational healthcare technology platform. This product is designed to streamline medication access workflows across the healthcare ecosystem. You’ll solve operational challenges using modern software engineering practices while building developer tooling and automation that accelerate our cloud-native modernization goals. This unique position blends traditional Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) responsibilities with a focus on enhancing developer experience through scalable technology patterns and healthcare-compliant development practices.

Role Positioning

You’ll report directly to an engineering director and work closely with the product engineering team responsible for this new platform. You’ll serve as a bridge between platform capabilities developed by our infrastructure teams and the specific needs of building a business-critical healthcare solution. This role offers the opportunity to shape how developers build healthcare technology at scale while gaining deep expertise in regulated environments and FHIR-based interoperability.

Our Tech Stack:

Application Development:

Node.js, TypeScript, FHIR Server, Apollo GraphQL Router, Confluent Kafka, PostgreSQL, Confluent Kafka

Infrastructure & Cloud:

Azure Cloud Services, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm, Dapr

Developer Tooling & Automation:

GitHub Actions, Backstage, OpenTelemetry

What You’ll Do

You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to support the delivery and reliability of a new healthcare platform, while also driving improvements in developer experience and platform modernization:

SRE Responsibilities

Ensure application performance stays within defined SLOs for healthcare-critical workflows

Automate operational tasks and identify process gaps specific to healthcare compliance requirements (SOX, SOC2, HIPAA)

Manage releases and build continuous deployment pipelines for FHIR-based services and federated GraphQL APIs

Implement observability and monitoring solutions tailored to healthcare data flows and patient-facing workflows

Provide operational guidance and expertise to product engineering team members

Developer Experience & Platform Modernization

Develop template Helm charts and Git repositories that accelerate adoption of federated APIs, event-driven architecture, and FHIR interoperability patterns

Build tooling and automation that reduce friction for developers adopting cloud-native solutions focused on horizontal scaling and micro-frontends

Create self-service developer onboarding automation and CI/CD workflows that reduce compliance toil

Partner with platform teams to identify product-specific cloud-native capabilities and influence platform roadmap

Implement developer productivity measurement using frameworks like Google's HEART methodology

Develop Backstage plugins and internal tools that improve developer workflows and reduce time-to-productivity

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelors in computer science, engineering, or another STEM field or equivalent experience and

typically requires 7+ years of relevant experience.

Critical Skills

5+ years' experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native infrastructure

3+ years' experience in a titled Senior Developer/Engineer role

3+ years of experience developing APIs (REST and GraphQL) and authentication systems (OAuth2, JWT, OpenID)

Proficient in Node.js and TypeScript development for building developer tooling and automation

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm charts) and GitHub Actions

Knowledge of developer platform tools like Backstage and internal tooling development

Understanding of healthcare interoperability standards (FHIR) and compliance requirements preferred

Experience with event-driven architectures and federated API patterns

Preferred Skills

Able to navigate ambiguity between traditional SRE work and developer experience priorities

Ability to analyze complex healthcare systems with attention to compliance and security requirements

Understands the implications of platform decisions on both operational reliability and developer productivity

Proactively shares information to keep product teams, platform teams, and leadership aligned on progress and blockers

Senior-Level Traits

Positively influence how development teams organize and execute their work through better tooling and automation

Demonstrate leadership in driving modernization and cloud-native adoption

Strong grasp on healthcare technology risks and how to minimize them through platform engineering

Experience mentoring developers on operational best practices and modern development patterns

We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

$126,000 - $210,000

McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer

McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees and is committed to a diverse and inclusive environment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age or genetic information. For additional information on McKesson’s full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.

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