Senior Observability Platform Engineer – Scale & Self-Service

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision coverage

Paid time off

Retirement savings options

Wellness programs

Job summary

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

You will collaborate with SRE, Cloud, CI/CD, and security teams to ensure reliable, secure, and cost-efficient observability at scale, while mentoring engineers and delivering self-service capabilities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years in observability practices (SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, alerting, incident management).
• 3+ years building production-grade backend services in Go and/or Java.
• 3+ years implementing and operating OpenTelemetry (OTLP, instrumentation).
• 3+ years with cloud-native platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD).
• 3+ years with public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• 2+ years designing scalable distributed data pipelines.
• 2+ years IaC tools (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• 2+ years with Helm/Kustomize and Grafana backends.
• 2+ years with relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL).

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate core observability platform services.
• Lead enterprise-wide OpenTelemetry adoption and best practices.
• Design scalable, high-throughput telemetry pipelines (logs, metrics, traces).
• Build self-service observability features for engineering teams.
• Define and monitor SLOs, health checks, and alerting for platforms.
• Collaborate with SRE, Cloud, CI/CD, and security teams.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to architectural direction.
• Automate workflows and improve platform reliability.
• Ensure secure telemetry pipelines with mTLS and secrets management.
• Produce technical documentation and standards.

Skills

Software Engineering

Observability practices

Go/Java backend

OpenTelemetry

Cloud native platforms

Data pipelines

IaC tooling

Grafana / observability backends

Relational databases

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Terraform/CloudFormation

Helm/Kustomize

Job description

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

You will collaborate with SRE, Cloud, CI/CD, and security teams to ensure reliable, secure, and cost-efficient observability at scale, while mentoring engineers and delivering self-service capabilities.