Lead Software Engineer - Enterprise Observability (Remote)

Humana; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 129,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for the Enterprise Observability Engineering team in the Charlotte area. You will drive design, implementation, and evolution of our observability and logging platforms, mentoring engineers and collaborating across SRE, Security, Networking, Platform Engineering, and Data Science teams to ensure reliability and scalability.

You will lead enterprise-scale initiatives, apply deep technical expertise to real-world challenges, and evolve our observability

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software/infrastructure engineering with observability/logging focus.
• Strong foundation in operating systems, networking, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Python, Java, Go, Node.js and CI/CD tooling.
• Experience with IaC and cloud-native development.

Responsibilities

• Architect and optimize observability environments with best practices.
• Build automation scripts/tools for instrumentation and deployment.
• Integrate observability into CI/CD using IaC and config management.

Skills

Python

.NET

Java

Go

Node.js

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Cloud-native

Education

Associate degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Bachelor's degree (preferred)

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Splunk/Dynatrace

Job description

Humana is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for the Enterprise Observability Engineering team in the Charlotte area. You will drive design, implementation, and evolution of our observability and logging platforms, mentoring engineers and collaborating across SRE, Security, Networking, Platform Engineering, and Data Science teams to ensure reliability and scalability.

You will lead enterprise-scale initiatives, apply deep technical expertise to real-world challenges, and evolve our observability