Senior Observability Platform Engineer — Scale & Reliability

Koitecc Solutions; Michigan; On-site; USD 83,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health Enterprise Technology is seeking a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate large‑scale observability services. You will work with Go, Python and Java, advancing OpenTelemetry instrumentation and standards across the enterprise.

You will collaborate with SRE, Cloud, CI/CD, and security teams to drive reliability, performance, and cost‑effective telemetry. The role includes on‑call responsibilities and mentoring, with a focus on secure, scalable telemetry

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering
• 3+ years 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 platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD)
• 3+ years working with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• 2+ years designing and scaling distributed data pipelines
• 2+ years with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• 2+ years with Helmcharts, Kustomize
• 2+ years with Grafana OSS or comparable observability backends
• 2+ years with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)

Responsibilities

• Develop custom software to drive the observability platform using Java Spring Boot, Python, Go
• Design, build, and operate core observability platform services using Go, Python, Java (Spring Boot)
• Support and lead enterprise‑wide adoption of OpenTelemetry, including client libraries and instrumentation patterns
• Architect and scale high‑throughput telemetry pipelines (logs, metrics, traces) with focus on performance and cost efficiency
• Develop self‑service observability capabilities to simplify onboarding and troubleshooting
• Implement end‑to‑end monitoring of the observability platform, including 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 operational workflows and improve CI/CD tooling
• Ensure secure telemetry pipelines with mTLS and secret management
• Produce and maintain technical documentation and best practices
• Engage with internal teams to inform roadmap and platform improvements
• Provide technical leadership through mentorship and architectural guidance

Skills

Software engineering

Observability

Go/Java

OpenTelemetry

Cloud-native

CI/CD

Data pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Terraform

CloudFormation

Grafana

Job description

CVS Health Enterprise Technology is seeking a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate large‑scale observability services. You will work with Go, Python and Java, advancing OpenTelemetry instrumentation and standards across the enterprise.

You will collaborate with SRE, Cloud, CI/CD, and security teams to drive reliability, performance, and cost‑effective telemetry. The role includes on‑call responsibilities and mentoring, with a focus on secure, scalable telemetry