Senior Observability Platform Engineer: Scale & Reliability

CVS Health; Nebraska; Hybrid; 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 that process billions of logs, metrics, and traces daily. You will work with Go, Python, and Java, and drive OpenTelemetry instrumentation across the enterprise.

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

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years with observability practices including SLI/SLO/SLAs, alerting, and incident management.
• 3+ years building production backend services in Go and/or Java.
• 3+ years implementing and operating OpenTelemetry.
• 3+ years with cloud-native platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD).
• 2+ years IaC with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• 2+ years with Helmcharts, Kustomize, etc.
• 2+ years with Grafana OSS or similar observability backends.
• 2+ years with PostgreSQL or MySQL.

Responsibilities

• Develop custom software to drive the observability platform.
• Design, build, and operate core observability services.
• Lead OpenTelemetry adoption across the enterprise.
• Scale telemetry pipelines for logs, metrics, and traces.
• Implement end-to-end monitoring with SLOs and health checks.
• Collaborate with SRE, Cloud, and Platforms teams to raise reliability standards.
• Mentor engineers and contribute architectural guidance.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

Observability practices

Cloud-native design

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Argo CD

OpenTelemetry tooling

Grafana

Terraform

CloudFormation

Helm

Kustomize

Job description

CVS Health Enterprise Technology is seeking a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale observability services that process billions of logs, metrics, and traces daily. You will work with Go, Python, and Java, and drive OpenTelemetry instrumentation across the enterprise.

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