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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. Youll 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.

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 -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:

• 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.
• Develop and maintain monitoring & observability as a service (Terraform) to automate platform deployment and configuration.
• Evangelize for all observability-related initiatives and mentor junior engineers in best practices.
• Define and enforce data retention access control and multi-tenant observability strategies for Elastic and Prometheus.
• Integrate observability tools into CI/CD pipelines to enable proactive detection and incident response.
• Optimize cost performance and scalability of observability services within AWS.
• 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.)
• Proficiency in Terraform and GitOps practices for infrastructure automation.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems containers (Docker) Kubernetes and microservices observability patterns.
• 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.

• Excellent communication and documentation skills.

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Qualifications

Must Have - Minimum Requirements

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE PLEASE BE SURE THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ARE EVIDENT ON YOUR RESUME

• Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering Software Engineering Computer Science Electrical Engineering or related technical field.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience SRE observability platform engineering or related fields or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of technical experience.

Nice to Have

• Experience with OpenTelemetry or other open standards for observability.
• Familiarity with cost optimization strategies in observability tooling.
• Exposure to compliance frameworks (HIPAA ISO 27001) in observability contexts.

About Medtronic

Together we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic we push the limits of what technology therapies and services 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.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Lets work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits resources and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$155200.00 - $232800.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

The base salary range is applicable across the United States excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience certification/education market conditions and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20 hours per week: Health Dental and vision insuranceHealth Savings AccountHealthcare Flexible Spending AccountLife insurance Long-term disability leaveDependent daycare spending accountTuition assistance/reimbursement andSimple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees:Incentive plans 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and matchShort-term disabilityPaid time offPaid holidaysEmployee Stock Purchase PlanEmployee Assistance ProgramNon-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums) andCapital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time as required under applicable state law and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend life unites a global team of 95000 passionate people.
We are engineers at heart putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab to the factory floor to the conference room every one of us experiments creates builds improves and solves. We have the talent diverse perspectives and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business mission and our commitment to diversity here.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age color national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression genetic information marital status status with regard to public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local addition Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.