Senior Observability Platform Engineer - Scale & OpenTelemetry

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental and vision coverage

Retirement savings options

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale observability services using Go, Python, and Java. You will drive OpenTelemetry adoption and shape a self-service observability ecosystem across CVS Health environments spanning on-prem, hybrid, and multiple clouds.

You will partner with SRE, Cloud, CI/CD, and Infrastructure teams to ensure reliable, secure, and cost-efficient observability at scale while delivering high-performing backend

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years observability, SLOs/SLIs/SLAs, alerting, incident management.
• 3+ years backend services in Go and/or Java.
• 2+ years with IaC tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• 2+ years with Grafana or similar observability backends.

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate large-scale observability services.
• Lead OpenTelemetry adoption across the enterprise.
• Design and scale high-throughput telemetry pipelines (logs, metrics, traces).
• Collaborate with SRE, Cloud, CI/CD and security teams.
• Mentor engineers, lead incident reviews, and ensure secure pipelines.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

AWS

SRE collaboration

CI/CD

Databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL)

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Docker

Argo CD

Terraform

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale observability services using Go, Python, and Java. You will drive OpenTelemetry adoption and shape a self-service observability ecosystem across CVS Health environments spanning on-prem, hybrid, and multiple clouds.

You will partner with SRE, Cloud, CI/CD, and Infrastructure teams to ensure reliable, secure, and cost-efficient observability at scale while delivering high-performing backend