Senior Observability Platform Engineer - OpenTelemetry

Koitecc Solutions; West Virginia; Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Wellness programs

Benefits package

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale observability services. You will develop backend services in Go, Python, and Java, and drive enterprise OpenTelemetry adoption across on-prem, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.

You will partner with SRE, Cloud Engineering, CI/CD, and Security to shape platform strategy, ensure reliability, security, and cost efficiency while delivering a self-service observability ecosystem that boosts

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• 3+ years with observability practices (SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, alerting)
• 3+ years building production backend services in Go and/or Java
• 3+ years implementing OpenTelemetry
• 3+ years with cloud-native platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD)
• 3+ years with public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• 2+ years designing distributed data pipelines
• 2+ years IaC tools (Terraform/CloudFormation)
• 2+ years Helm/Kustomize; Grafana OSS experience

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate core observability platform services using Go, Python, Java
• Lead enterprise adoption of OpenTelemetry and instrumentation patterns
• Design and scale high-throughput telemetry pipelines (logs, metrics, traces) for performance and cost efficiency
• Build self-service observability capabilities to simplify onboarding and troubleshooting
• Implement end-to-end monitoring with SLOs and health checks
• Collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Cloud teams to set reliability standards
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident reviews
• Automate workflows via CI/CD enhancements and platform tooling
• Ensure secure telemetry pipelines with mTLS and secrets management
• Produce technical docs and best practices
• Gather requirements and influence platform roadmap
• Provide technical leadership through reviews and mentorship

Skills

Go

Python

Java

OpenTelemetry

Cloud experience

Kubernetes

SRE collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Terraform

Helm

Grafana

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale observability services. You will develop backend services in Go, Python, and Java, and drive enterprise OpenTelemetry adoption across on-prem, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.

You will partner with SRE, Cloud Engineering, CI/CD, and Security to shape platform strategy, ensure reliability, security, and cost efficiency while delivering a self-service observability ecosystem that boosts