Senior Observability Platform Engineer — Scale & Telemetry

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Bonus eligibility

401(k) plan

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design and operate large-scale telemetry pipelines across on-prem, hybrid, and cloud environments. You will build backend services with Go, Python, and Java and drive adoption of OpenTelemetry.

Collaborating with SRE, Cloud, and Infra teams, you will advance platform reliability, cost efficiency, and developer experience while mentoring engineers and shaping architectural direction.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering.
• 3+ years with observability practices including 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 platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD).
• 3+ years with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• 2+ years designing and scaling distributed, high-volume data pipelines.
• 2+ years of Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.

Responsibilities

• Develop custom software to drive the observability platform using Java Spring Boot, Python, Go-lang etc.
• 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 and instrumentation patterns
• Design, architect and scale high-throughput telemetry pipelines (logs, metrics, traces) with a focus on performance and cost efficiency
• Develop self-service observability capabilities that simplify onboarding and troubleshooting for application teams
• Implement end-to-end monitoring of the observability platform itself, defining SLOs and health checks
• Collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Cloud teams to establish reliability standards and incident practices
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident mitigation and post-incident reviews
• Automate operational workflows and improve tooling, CI/CD and platform automation
• Ensure secure telemetry pipelines with mTLS and secrets management
• Produce and maintain high-quality technical documentation and standards
• Engage with teams to gather requirements and influence roadmap priorities
• Provide technical leadership through mentorship and architectural guidance

Skills

Go

Python

Java

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Terraform

CloudFormation

PostgreSQL

Grafana

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Terraform

CloudFormation

Grafana OSS

PostgreSQL

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design and operate large-scale telemetry pipelines across on-prem, hybrid, and cloud environments. You will build backend services with Go, Python, and Java and drive adoption of OpenTelemetry.

Collaborating with SRE, Cloud, and Infra teams, you will advance platform reliability, cost efficiency, and developer experience while mentoring engineers and shaping architectural direction.