Lead Observability Platform Engineer

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. POSITION SUMMARY Join CVS Health Enterprise Technology and help evolve observability at Fortune‑6 scale. The Enterprise Observability Platform (EOP) delivers standardized, frictionless instrumentation and telemetry pipelines for engineering teams across all CVS Health application environments—spanning on‑prem, hybrid, and multiple public clouds. As a Lead Observability Platform Engineer , you will design, build, and operate large‑scale observability services that process billions of logs, metrics, and traces daily. You will develop high‑performance backend services using Go, Java, and Node.js, and lead the adoption of OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation and standards across the enterprise. In this role, you will partner closely with SRE, Cloud Engineering, CI/CD, Infrastructure, Security, and application teams to shape platform strategy, enhance developer experience, and ensure reliable, secure, and cost‑efficient observability at scale. You will provide senior technical leadership, influence architectural direction, and help deliver a world‑class, self-service observability ecosystem that accelerates engineering productivity and operational excellence. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Design, build, and operate core observability platform services using Go, Java (Spring Boot), and Node.js. Lead enterprise-wide adoption of OpenTelemetry, including client libraries, semantic conventions, instrumentation patterns, and Collector/agent strategy. Architect and scale high‑throughput, fault‑tolerant telemetry pipelines (logs, metrics, traces) with a ...