Senior Observability Platform Engineer: Scale Telemetry

CVS Health; Washington (District of Columbia); 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 high-scale observability services handling logs, metrics, and traces. You will use Go, Python, and Java, driving OpenTelemetry adoption across the enterprise and partnering with SRE, Cloud, CI/CD teams for reliable, secure telemetry at scale.

You will lead architectural direction, mentor engineers, and deliver a self-service observability ecosystem that accelerates productivity and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering.
• 3+ years of experience with observability practices (SLIs/SLOs/SLAs), alerting, and incident management.
• 3+ years building production-grade backend services in Go and/or Java.
• 3+ years implementing and operating OpenTelemetry, including OTLP, semantic conventions, and instrumentation patterns.
• 3+ years with cloud-native and containerized platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD).
• 3+ years working with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• 2+ years designing and scaling distributed, high-volume data pipelines.
• 2+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• 2+ years of experience with Helmcharts, Kustomize etc.
• 2+ years working with Grafana OSS or comparable observability backends (Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir).
• 2+ years with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL).

Responsibilities

• Develop custom software to drive the observability platform using Java Spring Boot, Python, Go.
• Design, build, and operate core observability platform services using Go, Python, Java (Spring Boot).
• Support and lead enterprise-wide adoption of OpenTelemetry, including client libraries, semantic conventions, instrumentation patterns, and Collector/agent strategy.
• Design, architect and scale high-throughput, fault-tolerant telemetry pipelines (logs, metrics, traces).
• Develop self-service observability capabilities that simplify onboarding, troubleshooting, and adoption for application teams.
• Implement end-to-end monitoring of the observability platform itself, defining SLOs, health checks, and alerting.
• Collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Cloud teams to establish reliability standards, error budgets, and incident response practices.
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident mitigation, root-cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Automate operational workflows and eliminate manual toil through tooling, CI/CD enhancements, and platform automation.
• Ensure secure telemetry pipelines through mTLS, secrets management, and zero-trust design patterns.
• Produce and maintain high-quality technical documentation, standards, and best practices.
• Engage with internal engineering teams to gather requirements, influence roadmap prioritization, and deliver platform improvements.
• Provide technical leadership through mentorship, design reviews, architectural guidance, and cross-team collaboration with principal engineers and engineering leadership.

Skills

Software Engineering

Observability

Go

Java

Python

OpenTelemetry

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Java Spring Boot

Python

Go

OpenTelemetry

Docker

Kubernetes

Argo CD

AWS

GCP

Azure

Terraform

CloudFormation

Helm

Kustomize

Grafana

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Envoy

Istio

Job description

CVS Health Enterprise Technology is seeking a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate high-scale observability services handling logs, metrics, and traces. You will use Go, Python, and Java, driving OpenTelemetry adoption across the enterprise and partnering with SRE, Cloud, CI/CD teams for reliable, secure telemetry at scale.

You will lead architectural direction, mentor engineers, and deliver a self-service observability ecosystem that accelerates productivity and