Senior Platform Engineer - NBA

Humana; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to keep the NBA platform healthy, reliable, and maintainable over the long term. You will gain deep knowledge of the Java/Drools rules engine, React/Node/Postgres stack, Node.js/Temporal orchestration, Kafka backbone, and Databricks pipelines to diagnose issues and implement focused improvements.

This hands-on role requires comfort with a polyglot codebase, distributed systems, observability, and cloud-native operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Able to read, debug, and extend code in 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 a knowledge of each component and how they integrate.
• 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 and help the platform scale with growth.
• Quality — Write tests, conduct code reviews, and uphold engineering standards for production-ready changes.
• Incident response — Participate in on-call, lead root-cause analysis, and convert incidents into durable fixes.
• Collaboration — Work with delivery pods and Decision Intelligence to own long-term components.

Skills

5+ years experience

Polyglot codebase

Distributed systems

Observability practices

Cloud infra (Azure)

Kubernetes & CI/CD

Maintenance mindset

Clear communication

Tools

Kafka

Temporal

Databricks

React/Node/Postgres stack

Job description

Become a part of our caring community

The Senior Platform Engineer keeps the entire NBA platform healthy, reliable, and maintainable for the long term. You develop a working understanding of every layer of the technology stack — the Java/Drools rules engine, the React/Node/Postgres action library, the Node.js and Temporal orchestration and state machine, the Kafka event backbone, and the Databricks decisioning pipelines — and you use that breadth to diagnose issues, improve reliability and performance, and implement focused features and enhancements wherever they are needed. This is a hands‑on role for an engineer who enjoys understanding how systems fit together and takes pride in keeping a complex platform running smoothly.

Become a part of our caring community

The Senior Platform Engineer keeps the entire NBA platform healthy, reliable, and maintainable for the long term. You develop a working understanding of every layer of the technology stack — the Java/Drools rules engine, the React/Node/Postgres action library, the Node.js and Temporal orchestration and state machine, the Kafka event backbone, and the Databricks decisioning pipelines — and you use that breadth to diagnose issues, improve reliability and performance, and implement focused features and enhancements wherever they are needed. This is a hands‑on role for an engineer who enjoys understanding how systems fit together and takes pride in keeping a complex platform running smoothly.

Key Responsibilities

• Cross-Stack Maintenance — Maintain and support services across the full platform; build and keep current a working knowledge of each component and how they integrate.
• Reliability Engineering — Monitor platform health, investigate production issues, and resolve bottlenecks, failures, and scaling constraints — often before users notice them.
• Feature Implementation — Design and ship focused features, enhancements, and technical improvements across platform components, favoring clarity and maintainability.
• Observability — Extend logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting so the team has clear visibility into what the system is doing in production.
• Performance and scale — Profile and tune components under load; help the platform scale reliably as member volume and data throughput grow.
• Quality — Write tests, participate in code reviews, and uphold engineering standards so changes ship production‑ready.
• Incident response — Participate in the on‑call rotation, lead root‑cause analysis, and turn incidents into durable fixes and preventative improvements.
• Collaboration — Work with the delivery pods and Decision Intelligence to understand new components and smoothly take on their long‑term ownership.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Comfortable working across a polyglot codebase; able to read, debug, and extend code in more than one of Java, Node.js/TypeScript, Python, and SQL.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems: APIs, event-driven patterns, asynchronous processing, and failure handling.
• Hands‑on experience with observability practices — structured logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• Experience operating services on cloud infrastructure (Azure or equivalent) with containers/Kubernetes and CI/CD.
• A maintenance-and-reliability mindset: you 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Kafka producer/consumer patterns and stream processing.
• Familiarity with Temporal or comparable workflow‑orchestration platforms.
• Exposure to rules engines (Drools or equivalent).
• Experience with React/Node/Postgres application stacks.
• Exposure to Databricks, Delta Lake, or Spark‑based data pipelines.
• Background in healthcare, insurance, or another regulated industry with PHI handling requirements.

Work Style: Remote/Hybrid - Preferably Boston, MA.

Occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

Work Hours

Typical business hours are Monday-Friday, 8 hours/day, 5 days/week-- some flexibility might be possible, depending on business needs.

Interview Format

As part of our hiring process, we will be using on-demand technology provided by Hire Vue, a third‑party vendor. This technology provides our team of recruiters and hiring managers with an enhanced method for decision‑making through on‑demand candidate assessments.

If you are selected to move forward from your application prescreen, you will receive correspondence inviting you to participate in an on-demand assessment with pre‑determined questions. You should anticipate the assessment to take approximately 10-15 minutes.

Your on‑demand assessment will be reviewed, and you will subsequently be informed if you will be moving forward to next round of interviews.

SSN Task via Workday

Should you be extended a formal employment offer you will receive a request to enter your SSN into our Workday system to scan for duplicate profiles.

Work from Home Requirements

To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees’ ability to work effectively, the self‑provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria: At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested. In certain roles, the minimum recommended internet speed required by Humana may not be sufficient for business needs. Humana reserves the right to require associates to upgrade their internet service if necessary. Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.

Travel

While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay Range

The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.

$106,900 - $147,000 per year

This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.

Description Of Benefits

Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole‑person well‑being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave), short‑term and long‑term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

Application Deadline

09-29-2026

About Us

About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need to when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer atHumana.comand atCenterWell.com.

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