Senior Observability Platform Engineer - Scale & Telemetry

CVS Health; Utah; Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design and operate large-scale observability services using Go, Python, and Java. You will drive OpenTelemetry adoption, scale pipelines, and partner with SRE, Cloud, and CI/CD teams to improve reliability and cost efficiency.

You will mentor engineers, define architecture, and deliver self-service observability tooling and standards across the enterprise in a 40-hour work week with competitive benefits.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate observability platform services using Go, Python, and Java Spring Boot-like work.
• Support and lead OpenTelemetry adoption across the enterprise, including libraries and conventions.
• Design and scale high-throughput telemetry pipelines (logs, metrics, traces) for performance and cost efficiency.
• Develop self-service observability capabilities to simplify onboarding and troubleshooting.
• Implement end-to-end monitoring, health checks, and alerting for the observability platform.
• Collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Cloud teams to establish reliability standards and incident response.
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews.
• Automate operational workflows via tooling, CI/CD enhancements, and platform automation.
• Ensure secure telemetry pipelines with mTLS and secrets management.
• Produce technical documentation and best practices, and influence roadmap with cross-team input.
• Provide technical leadership through mentorship and architectural guidance.

Skills

Observability practices

Go

Python

Java

OpenTelemetry

Docker

Kubernetes

Argo CD

AWS/GCP/Azure

PostgreSQL/MySQL

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Grafana

Tempo

Mimir

Kustomize

Helm

Docker

Argo CD

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design and operate large-scale observability services using Go, Python, and Java. You will drive OpenTelemetry adoption, scale pipelines, and partner with SRE, Cloud, and CI/CD teams to improve reliability and cost efficiency.

You will mentor engineers, define architecture, and deliver self-service observability tooling and standards across the enterprise in a 40-hour work week with competitive benefits.