Senior Observability Platform Engineer - Scale & Telemetry

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

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Bonus eligibility

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 lead the enterprise adoption of OpenTelemetry, partner with SRE, Cloud Engineering, and CI/CD teams, and drive reliable, secure observability at Fortune‑6 scale.

Expect on‑call rotations, architectural influence, and high‑impact platform improvements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering
• 3+ years of experience with 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
• 3+ years with cloud‑native platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD)
• 3+ years with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• 2+ years designing and scaling distributed data pipelines
• 2+ years with IaC tools (Terraform or CloudFormation)
• 2+ years with Helm/Kustomize
• 2+ years with Grafana OSS or similar observability backends
• 2+ years with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)

Responsibilities

• Develop custom software to drive the observability platform using modern languages
• Design, build, and operate core observability platform services
• Lead OpenTelemetry adoption across the enterprise
• Scale high‑throughput telemetry pipelines (logs, metrics, traces) for performance and cost efficiency
• Develop self‑service observability capabilities for onboarding and troubleshooting
• Implement end‑to‑end monitoring with SLOs and health checks
• Collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Cloud teams to set reliability standards
• Participate in on‑call rotations and lead incident reviews
• Automate workflows and CI/CD to reduce manual toil
• Ensure secure telemetry pipelines with mTLS and zero‑trust patterns
• Produce technical documentation and best practices
• Mentor engineers and influence platform standards across teams

Skills

Observability practices

OpenTelemetry adoption

Cloud-native environments

Technical leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Java Spring Boot

Python

Go

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Grafana

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 lead the enterprise adoption of OpenTelemetry, partner with SRE, Cloud Engineering, and CI/CD teams, and drive reliable, secure observability at Fortune‑6 scale.

Expect on‑call rotations, architectural influence, and high‑impact platform improvements.