Senior Platform Engineer – Reliability, Scale, Remote

Humana; Boston (MA); 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 scalable. You will work across Java, Node.js, Python, and SQL, improving observability and reliability while delivering focused features and enhancements.

Remote/Hybrid — preferably Boston, MA, with on-call rotation and collaboration with Delivery Pods and Decision Intelligence. You will design and ship components that stay maintainable under growth, write tests, and participate in incident reviews to

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production systems.
• Ability to read and extend Java, Node.js/TypeScript, Python, and SQL code.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and resilience.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and monitor platform health and reliability.
• Design and ship features across platform components.
• Extend observability with logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• Profile and tune performance under load.
• Participate in on-call incidents and root-cause analyses.
• Collaborate with delivery pods and Decision Intelligence.

Skills

Java

Node.js/TypeScript

Python

SQL

Distributed systems

Observability practices

Cloud infrastructure (Azure or equival

Containers/Kubernetes

CI/CD

Clear communicator

Tools

Kafka

Temporal

Drools

React

Postgres

Databricks

Job description

Humana is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to keep the NBA platform healthy, reliable, and scalable. You will work across Java, Node.js, Python, and SQL, improving observability and reliability while delivering focused features and enhancements.

Remote/Hybrid — preferably Boston, MA, with on-call rotation and collaboration with Delivery Pods and Decision Intelligence. You will design and ship components that stay maintainable under growth, write tests, and participate in incident reviews to