Senior Observability Platform Engineer – Scale & Telemetry

Koitecc Solutions

Northern (KY)

Hybrid

USD 83,000 - 222,000

Full time

9 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Paid time off
Retirement savings options
Wellness programs

Job summary

CVS Health Enterprise Technology is seeking a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale observability services using Go, Python, and Java. You will lead OpenTelemetry adoption, shape platform strategy, and collaborate with SRE, Cloud Engineering, CI/CD, and security teams to deliver a reliable, secure observability ecosystem.

You will implement high-throughput telemetry pipelines, mentor engineers, and contribute to self-service capabilities while ensuring

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

  • Develop custom software to drive the observability platform (Java Spring Boot, Python, Go).
  • Design, build, and operate core observability services (Go, Python, Java).
  • Lead OpenTelemetry adoption across the enterprise (libraries, conventions, instrumentation).
  • Scale high-throughput telemetry pipelines (logs, metrics, traces) with performance and cost focus.
  • Create self-service observability capabilities for onboarding and troubleshooting.
  • Monitor the observability platform end-to-end, define SLOs and alerting.
  • Collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Cloud teams to ensure reliability standards.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and perform root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews.
  • Automate workflows, enhance CI/CD, and drive platform automation.
  • Ensure secure telemetry pipelines (mTLS, secrets management, zero-trust).
  • Produce high-quality documentation and best practices.
  • Mentor engineers and influence platform standards across teams.

Skills

Observability practices
Backend development (Go/Java)
OpenTelemetry
Cloud-native (Docker/Kubernetes)
Public cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)
Distributed data pipelines
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CFN)
Helm/Kustomize
Grafana OSS
Relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL
Software engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Java Spring Boot
Python
Go
OpenTelemetry
Docker
Kubernetes
Argo CD
Terraform
CloudFormation
Grafana
PostgreSQL
MySQL

Job description

CVS Health Enterprise Technology is seeking a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale observability services using Go, Python, and Java. You will lead OpenTelemetry adoption, shape platform strategy, and collaborate with SRE, Cloud Engineering, CI/CD, and security teams to deliver a reliable, secure observability ecosystem.

You will implement high-throughput telemetry pipelines, mentor engineers, and contribute to self-service capabilities while ensuring

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