Senior Platform Engineer - Reliable Scalable Systems Remote

Humana Inc; Columbia (SC); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus incentive plan

Medical, dental and vision benefits

401(k) retirement savings

Job summary

Humana Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to ensure the NBA platform remains healthy, reliable, and maintainable at scale.

You will navigate Java/Drools, React/Node/Postgres stacks, Node.js/Temporal orchestration, Kafka backbone, and Databricks pipelines to diagnose issues and implement focused improvements. You will maintain services across the platform, monitor health, design new features, extend observability, and drive proactive reliability through testing, reviews, and on-call

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.
• A maintenance-and-reliability mindset: operational health and clean, well-documented code are priorities.
• Clear communicator who can explain complex systems or incidents to engineers and non-engineers alike.

Responsibilities

• Cross-Stack Maintenance - Maintain and support services across the full platform and stay current on components and integration.
• Reliability Engineering - Monitor health, investigate production issues, resolve bottlenecks and scaling constraints.
• Feature Implementation - Design and ship focused features and improvements across platform components.
• Observability - Extend logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting for clear production visibility.
• Performance and scale - Profile and tune components under load, enable reliable growth.
• Quality - Write tests, participate in code reviews, uphold engineering standards.
• Incident response - Participate in on-call, lead root-cause analysis, implement durable fixes.
• Collaboration - Work with delivery pods and Decision Intelligence to own long-term components.

Skills

Software engineering

Polyglot coding

Java

Node.js/TypeScript

Python

SQL

Distributed systems

Observability

Cloud/Kubernetes/CI-CD

Tools

Kafka

Drools

Temporal

React

Node/Postgres

Databricks

Job description

Humana Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to ensure the NBA platform remains healthy, reliable, and maintainable at scale.

You will navigate Java/Drools, React/Node/Postgres stacks, Node.js/Temporal orchestration, Kafka backbone, and Databricks pipelines to diagnose issues and implement focused improvements. You will maintain services across the platform, monitor health, design new features, extend observability, and drive proactive reliability through testing, reviews, and on-call