Lead Platform Reliability Engineer

Humana; Salt Lake City (UT); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana Inc. seeks a seasoned Lead Software Engineer to architect and deliver foundational services for real-time NBA recommendations. You will own the State Machine and Transactional Outbox, ensuring robust, auditable, scalable outcomes while guiding a small team of engineers and contractors.

You will lead design, testing, observability, reliability engineering, and production readiness across a Java/Python/Node.js/TypeScript stack in a regulated healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• 8+ years of full stack software engineering with leadership experience.
• Experience building production software across Java, Python, Node.js or TypeScript.
• Hands-on testing and automation development experience.
• Strong observability, metrics, tracing, and monitoring knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery for platform scale and reliability pod.
• Ensure uptime, performance, resilience, and operational excellence.
• Build and maintain automated testing frameworks and quality gates.
• Contribute production code and build reliability tooling.
• Own logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and monitoring strategy.
• Define patterns for exception handling, fault tolerance, and recovery.
• Lead scalability initiatives and optimize cost, throughput, and reliability.
• Define release readiness criteria and production handoff standards.
• Manage and mentor engineers and contractors; conduct code reviews.
• Partner with cross-team to address reliability risks early.

Skills

Full stack software engineering

Platform reliability leadership

Observability & monitoring

Distributed systems design

Cloud-native Kubernetes

Java, Python, Node.js, TypeScript

Code reviews & mentoring

AI-assisted development tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Azure DevOps

Databricks Lakehouse

Claude

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Humana Inc. seeks a seasoned Lead Software Engineer to architect and deliver foundational services for real-time NBA recommendations. You will own the State Machine and Transactional Outbox, ensuring robust, auditable, scalable outcomes while guiding a small team of engineers and contractors.

You will lead design, testing, observability, reliability engineering, and production readiness across a Java/Python/Node.js/TypeScript stack in a regulated healthcare environment.