Staff Observability Platform Engineer (SRE)
CVS Health20 hours ago
Base Salary
$118k - $237k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain reliability metrics, SLOs, SLIs, alerts, and error budgets aligned with business and operational goals.
- Design and implement monitoring and observability solutions using dashboards, alerts, metrics, logs, traces, and observability platforms.
- Architect and scale reliable cloud infrastructure for multiple business applications.
- Build automated quality gates and integrate reliability and performance checks into release engineering and CI/CD pipelines.
- Support incident response, analyze outages, conduct post-mortems, and recommend preventive measures.
- Apply AI and GenAI to anomaly detection, signal summarization, triage, root-cause analysis, guided investigations, and next-best-action recommendations.
- Monitor AI workloads for quality, safety, cost, latency, reliability, tracing, and secure logging and redaction.
- Lead the release DevOps team in integrating reliability gates and influence platform standards across organizations.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or SRE.
- 7+ years of experience with observability practices, including SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, alerting, and incident management.
- 7+ years building production-grade backend services in Java or Python.
- 7+ years implementing and operating OpenTelemetry, including OTLP, semantic conventions, and instrumentation patterns.
- 7+ years with Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD, and other cloud-native or containerized platforms.
- 7+ years working with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- 5+ years designing and scaling distributed, high-volume data pipelines.
- 5+ years with Grafana OSS or comparable observability backends such as Loki, Tempo, and Prometheus.
- 5+ years with relational databases including PostgreSQL and MySQL.
- Preferred experience includes Envoy, Istio, Splunk, AppDynamics, Kafka, Pulsar, ClickHouse, Bigtable, Cassandra, Terraform, CloudFormation, chaos engineering, resiliency testing, fault injection, cost optimization, capacity planning, security-aware platform design, mentoring, and 24x7 production support.
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience is required; a high school diploma plus four years of relevant experience is accepted.
Benefits
- Full-time position with medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other eligibility-based resources.
- Eligible for CVS Health bonus, commission, or short-term incentive programs and an equity award target in addition to base pay.
- Application window is anticipated to close on September 22, 2026.
Tech Stack
AmbassadorApache CassandraApache KafkaArgo CDAWSAzureClickHouseDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaIstioJavaKubernetesMySQLPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonSplunkTerraform
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About CVS Health
CVS Health is a U.S. health care company that operates thousands of retail pharmacies, runs the CVS Caremark pharmacy benefits manager, and owns the Aetna health insurance business. It sells prescriptions, retail health goods, and insurance plans, and provides primary and urgent care through MinuteClinic and other services for consumers, employers, and government programs. Founded in 1963 and headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, it is a public company traded on the NYSE.