Senior Platform Engineer - Reliability & Scale (Remote)

Humana Inc; Jackson (MS); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana Inc is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to keep the NBA platform healthy, reliable, and maintainable for the long term. You will understand the full tech stack—from Java/Drools to React/Node/Postgres, Node.js and Temporal, Kafka, and Databricks decisioning pipelines—and use that breadth to diagnose issues, improve reliability, and implement focused features.

This hands-on role rewards an engineer who enjoys system-level thinking, maintains high standards, writes tests, and participates

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.

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.

Skills

Software engineering

Polyglot codebase

Distributed systems

Observability practices

Cloud / Kubernetes

Communication

Tools

Kafka

Temporal

Drools

React/Node/Postgres

Job description

Humana Inc is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to keep the NBA platform healthy, reliable, and maintainable for the long term. You will understand the full tech stack—from Java/Drools to React/Node/Postgres, Node.js and Temporal, Kafka, and Databricks decisioning pipelines—and use that breadth to diagnose issues, improve reliability, and implement focused features.

This hands-on role rewards an engineer who enjoys system-level thinking, maintains high standards, writes tests, and participates