Lead Engineer - Observability Platform
Core
Architecting and scaling high-throughput, fault-tolerant telemetry pipelines (logs, metrics, traces) for billions of data points across public clouds and datacenters to provide frictionless observability for CVS Health's software engineers.
Role type
Lead Cloud Engineer (Observability Platform)
Builds
Enterprise observability platform services, self-service monitoring capabilities, and scalable data pipelines.
Domain
Cloud-native infrastructure, distributed systems, observability engineering.
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Go, Java (Spring Boot), OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS/GCP/Azure, Terraform, PostgreSQL/MySQL, Grafana/Loki/Tempo, CI/CD automation, mTLS/zero-trust security patterns.
Preferred skills
Service meshes (Envoy/Istio), commercial observability platforms (Datadog/New Relic), streaming platforms (Kafka/Pulsar), time-series/NoSQL databases, chaos engineering, cost optimization.
Technologies
Go, Java, Spring Boot, OpenTelemetry, OTLP, Kubernetes, Docker, Argo CD, AWS, GCP, Azure, Helmcharts, Kustomize, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, Terraform, CloudFormation, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, Pulsar, ClickHouse, Bigtable, Cassandra, Envoy, Istio, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, GoAlert.
Responsibilities
Design and operate core observability platform services; lead enterprise-wide adoption of OpenTelemetry standards; architect and scale high-throughput telemetry pipelines; develop self-service monitoring capabilities; implement end-to-end platform monitoring with SLOs and alerting; collaborate on reliability standards and incident response; automate operational workflows; produce technical documentation and best practices; provide technical leadership through mentorship and design reviews.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities
