Senior Platform Engineer: Cross-Stack Reliability (Remote)

Humana Inc; Providence (RI); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus incentive plan

Remote/Hybrid work

Travel for training/meetings

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Humana Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to keep our NBA platform healthy, reliable, and scalable. You will work across Java, Node.js/TypeScript, Python and SQL to diagnose issues, improve reliability, and implement targeted features.

This hands-on role emphasizes observability, incident response, and collaboration with cross-functional pods. Remote/hybrid work is supported with occasional travel to Humana offices; standard schedule is 40 hours per week.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Comfortable working across a polyglot codebase; read, debug, and extend Java, Node.js/TypeScript, Python, and SQL.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems: APIs, event-driven patterns, asynchronous processing, and failure handling.
• Hands-on observability practices - structured logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• Experience operating services on cloud infrastructure (Azure or equivalent) with containers/Kubernetes and CI/CD.
• Maintenance-and-reliability mindset: treat operational health and clean, well-documented code as first-class work.
• Clear communicator who can explain a system or an incident to engineers and non-engineers alike.

Responsibilities

• Cross-Stack Maintenance - Maintain and support services across the full platform; build and keep current knowledge of each component.
• Reliability Engineering - Monitor platform health, investigate production issues, and resolve bottlenecks, failures, and scaling constraints.
• Feature Implementation - Design and ship focused features, enhancements, and technical improvements across platform components.
• Observability - Extend logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting for clear production visibility.
• Performance and scale - Profile and tune components under load; help the platform scale reliably as data grows.
• Quality - Write tests, participate in code reviews, and uphold engineering standards.
• Incident response - Participate in on-call, lead root-cause analysis, and implement durable fixes.
• Collaboration - Work with delivery pods and Decision Intelligence to understand new components and ownership.

Skills

Java

Node.js/TypeScript

Python

SQL

Distributed systems

Observability

Cloud (Azure)

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Communication

Tools

Kafka

Drools

React

Node/Postgres

Databricks

Temporal

Job description

Humana Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to keep our NBA platform healthy, reliable, and scalable. You will work across Java, Node.js/TypeScript, Python and SQL to diagnose issues, improve reliability, and implement targeted features.

This hands-on role emphasizes observability, incident response, and collaboration with cross-functional pods. Remote/hybrid work is supported with occasional travel to Humana offices; standard schedule is 40 hours per week.