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At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Principal Observability Engineer

Careers That Change Lives

Transforming Patient Management with Smart Technology!

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to help alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) Software develops the next generation medical technologies that alleviate pain, restore health and extend life for millions of patients across the world. We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.

We are seeking a Principal Observability Engineer to lead the design, automation, and support of our observability stack across Elastic Cloud, Dynatrace, Prometheus, and AWS. This role is a technical leadership position responsible for setting the strategic direction of observability, mentoring a growing team of engineers, and driving reliability through actionable insights into our systems and applications.

We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.

This position is in Mounds View, MN. within the Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) unit. At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We are working on-site 4 days per week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. This role will require less than 10% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.

Day in the Life: 

In general, the following responsibilities apply for the Principal Observability Engineer role. This includes, but is not limited to the following:

• Solid understanding of distributed systems, containers (Docker), Kubernetes, and microservices observability patterns.
• Proven track record implementing Terraform and GitOps practices to enable scalable, reliable, and automated infrastructure delivery.
• Own the architecture, implementation, and lifecycle management of the observability platform (Elastic Cloud, Dynatrace, Prometheus, & more).
• Lead efforts to improve logging, monitoring, metrics collection, distributed tracing, and alerting across cloud-native applications.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, and Architecture teams to define SLIs/SLOs and implement robust observability standards.
• Evangelize for all observability-related initiatives and mentor junior engineers in best practices.
• Integrate observability tools into CI/CD pipelines to enable proactive detection and incident response.
• Participate in on-call rotations and post-incident reviews, driving reliability improvements across the platform.

Specialized Knowledge Required:

• Deep expertise in managing Elastic Cloud (Kibana, Beats, Logstash, Index Lifecycle Policies).
• Hands-on experience with Dynatrace and Prometheus monitoring stacks, including exporter management and custom dashboards.
• Strong experience with AWS services (EC2, EKS, S3, IAM, etc.) and Streaming framework (Kafka etc.)
• Optimize cost, performance, and scalability of observability services within AWS.
• Proven leadership and mentorship experience; ability to lead cross-functional projects and develop junior team members.
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or similar) for automation and integration.
• Define and enforce data retention, access control, and multi-tenant observability strategies for Elastic and Prometheus.

• Excellent communication and documentation skills.

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