Job Description

GE Healthcare
Healthcare Science & Technology Organization
Category
Digital Technology / IT
Senior Level
Job Id
R4025620 Relocation Assistance No
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 560066

Summary

As a Sr. Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for defining and implementing the observability strategy across our next-generation cloud-native healthcare services. You will lead the design of scalable, secure, and innovative observability frameworks that empower engineering teams to build resilient, performant, and diagnosable systems. This role is critical to ensuring our platform meets the highest standards of reliability, compliance, and operational excellence.



GE Healthcare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator. Our mission is to improve lives in the moments that matter. Unlock your ambition, turn ideas into world-changing realities, and join an organization where every voice makes a difference, and every difference builds a healthier world.

Roles and Responsibilities:

In this role, you will:

Define and evolve the

observability vision and roadmap

for our cloud-native healthcare platform. Architect and implement

standardized observability frameworks

(metrics, logs, traces, events, profiling) across services. Collaborate with platform, SRE, and product teams to

instrument services

using OpenTelemetry and other modern observability tooling. Build and maintain

dashboards, alerts, and SLOs

that reflect both technical and business health indicators. Evaluate, integrate, and optimize observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Tempo, Loki, Elastic). Lead

incident analysis and postmortem reviews

, driving improvements in system resilience and observability coverage. Ensure observability practices align with

healthcare compliance standards

(e.g., HIPAA, HITRUST). Mentor engineers and promote a

culture of observability-first development

.

Educational Qualifications:

Bachelor's or Master' s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

Required Qualifications:

12+ years of experience in software engineering, SRE - Site Reliability Engineering or platform engineering roles. 6+ years of experience

architecting observability solutions in cloud-native environments

(Kubernetes, microservices, serverless). Deep expertise in

observability pillars

(metrics, logs, traces) and tools like Open Telemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc. Strong programming/scripting skills (e.g., Go, Python, Bash, Terraform). Experience with

distributed tracing

,

SLO/SLI frameworks

, and

incident response workflows

. Familiarity with

cloud platforms

(AWS, GCP, or Azure) and CI/CD pipelines. Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Desired Qualifications:

Experience in

healthcare or regulated industries

. Knowledge of

data privacy and compliance

(HIPAA, HITRUST). Experience with

cost optimization

and

telemetry data governance

. Contributions to open-source observability projects. Passion for building developer-friendly tools and frameworks.

Business Acumen:

Adept at navigating the organizational matrix; understanding people's roles, can foresee obstacles, identify workarounds, leverage resources and rally teammates. Understand how internal and/or external business model works and facilitate active customer engagement Able to articulate the value of what is most important to the business/customer to achieve outcomes Able to produce functional area information in sufficient detail for cross-functional teams to utilize, using presentation and storytelling concepts.

Leadership:

Demonstrated working knowledge of internal organization Foresee obstacles, identify workarounds, leverage resources, rally teammates. Demonstrated ability to work with and/or lead blended teams, including 3rd party partners and customer personnel. Demonstrated Change Management /Acceleration capabilities Strong interpersonal skills, including creativity and curiosity with ability to effectively communicate and influence across all organizational levels Proven analytical and problem resolution skills Ability to influence and build consensus with other Information Technology (IT) teams and leadership.

Inclusion and Diversity

GE Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.


We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviors: to act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus, and drive ownership - always with unyielding integrity.


Our

total rewards

are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you'd expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you'll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration and support.

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Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided:

No