Senior Observability Platform Engineer - OpenTelemetry

CVS Health; South Carolina; Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Coverage

Retirement Savings

Paid Time Off

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale observability services across on‑prem, hybrid, and cloud environments. You will work with Go, Python, Java (Spring Boot), and OpenTelemetry to standardize instrumentation and drive enterprise-wide adoption.

You will partner with SRE, Cloud, CI/CD, and Infrastructure teams to shape platform strategy, improve developer experience, and ensure secure, cost-efficient telemetry at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering.
• 3+ years of experience with observability practices, including SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, alerting, and incident management.
• 3+ years building production-grade backend services in Go and/or Java.
• 3+ years implementing and operating OpenTelemetry.
• 3+ years with cloud-native and containerized platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD).
• 3+ years with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• 2+ years designing and scaling distributed, high-volume data pipelines.
• 2+ years of Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• 2+ years with Helmcharts, Kustomize, etc.
• 2+ years with Grafana OSS or comparable observability backends.

Responsibilities

• Develop custom software to drive the observability platform using Java Spring Boot, Python, Go, etc.
• Design, build, and operate core observability platform services using Go, Python, Java (Spring Boot)
• Lead OpenTelemetry adoption across the enterprise, including client libraries and semantic conventions
• Design, architect and scale high-throughput telemetry pipelines (logs, metrics, traces) with focus on performance and cost
• Develop self-service observability capabilities to simplify onboarding and troubleshooting
• Implement end-to-end monitoring of the observability platform, defining SLOs and health checks
• Collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Cloud teams to establish reliability standards and incident response
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident reviews
• Automate workflows and platform tooling to reduce manual toil
• Ensure secure telemetry pipelines with mTLS and secrets management
• Produce high-quality technical documentation and standards
• Gather requirements and influence roadmap with engineering leadership
• Provide technical leadership through mentorship and architectural guidance

Skills

Software Engineering

Observability

Go

Java

Python

AWS

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Cloud-Native

SQL/Databases

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Terraform

CloudFormation

Grafana

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale observability services across on‑prem, hybrid, and cloud environments. You will work with Go, Python, Java (Spring Boot), and OpenTelemetry to standardize instrumentation and drive enterprise-wide adoption.

You will partner with SRE, Cloud, CI/CD, and Infrastructure teams to shape platform strategy, improve developer experience, and ensure secure, cost-efficient telemetry at scale.