Senior Observability Platform Engineer at Scale

CVS Health; Nevada (IA); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health Enterprise Technology seeks a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale observability services handling billions of logs, metrics, and traces daily. You will develop backend services in Go, Python, and Java and drive standardization across environments.

You will partner with SRE, Cloud Engineering, CI/CD, and security teams to shape platform strategy, improve developer experience, and ensure reliable, secure observability at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience.
• 3+ years observability practices (SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, alerting, incidents).
• 3+ years building backend services in Go and/or Java.
• 3+ years implementing and operating OpenTelemetry.
• 3+ years with cloud-native platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD).
• 3+ years with public clouds (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• 2+ years designing scalable data pipelines
• 2+ years IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• 2+ years Helm/Kustomize,
• 2+ years Grafana OSS or similar observability backends
• 2+ years with PostgreSQL/MySQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Develop custom software to drive the observability platform using Java Spring Boot, Python, Go.
• Design, build, and operate core observability platform services in Go, Python, Java (Spring Boot).
• Lead adoption of OpenTelemetry across the enterprise with instrumentation patterns.
• Scale high-throughput telemetry pipelines (logs, metrics, traces) for performance and cost efficiency.
• Develop self-service observability capabilities to aid onboarding and troubleshooting.
• Implement end-to-end monitoring of the observability platform, define SLOs and health checks.
• Collaborate with SRE, Platform, Cloud teams to set reliability standards and incident response.
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead post-incident reviews.
• Automate workflows via CI/CD enhancements and platform automation.
• Ensure secure telemetry pipelines with mTLS and secret management.

Skills

Software Engineering

Observability

Go

Java

Python

Cloud Native

AWS/GCP/Azure

OpenTelemetry

Terraform/CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Docker

Argo CD

Grafana

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Terraform

CloudFormation

Helm

Kustomize

Grafana

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Job description

CVS Health Enterprise Technology seeks a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale observability services handling billions of logs, metrics, and traces daily. You will develop backend services in Go, Python, and Java and drive standardization across environments.

You will partner with SRE, Cloud Engineering, CI/CD, and security teams to shape platform strategy, improve developer experience, and ensure reliable, secure observability at scale.