Senior Observability Platform Engineer — Scale & Innovate

CVS Health; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Paid time off

Retirement options

Wellness programs

Job summary

CVS Health Enterprise Technology seeks a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale telemetry services using Go, Python, and Java. You will lead the adoption of OpenTelemetry across the enterprise and partner with SRE, Cloud, CI/CD, and security teams to shape platform strategy.

You will deliver reliable, secure, and cost-efficient observability at scale, mentor engineers, and drive architectural decisions that accelerate developer productivity and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
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Responsibilities

• Develop custom software to drive the observability platform using Java, Python, Go.
• Design, build, and operate core observability platform services using Go, Python, Java (Spring Boot).
• Lead OpenTelemetry adoption across the enterprise with instrumentation patterns and Collector/agent strategy.
• Architect and scale high-throughput telemetry pipelines (logs, metrics, traces).
• Develop self-service observability capabilities for onboarding and troubleshooting.
• Define SLOs, health checks, and alerting for the platform.
• Collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Cloud teams to ensure reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident reviews.
• Automate workflows via CI/CD enhancements and platform tooling.
• Ensure secure telemetry pipelines with mTLS and secrets management.
• Produce technical documentation and best practices.
• Engage with engineering teams to influence roadmap and platform improvements.
• Provide mentorship and architectural guidance across teams.

Skills

Software engineering

Observability

Go

Java

Python

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

SRE collaboration

Data pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Terraform

CloudFormation

Grafana

Job description

CVS Health Enterprise Technology seeks a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale telemetry services using Go, Python, and Java. You will lead the adoption of OpenTelemetry across the enterprise and partner with SRE, Cloud, CI/CD, and security teams to shape platform strategy.

You will deliver reliable, secure, and cost-efficient observability at scale, mentor engineers, and drive architectural decisions that accelerate developer productivity and