Senior Platform Engineer — Remote & Reliability Leader

Humana Inc; Trenton (NJ); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k)

Paid time off

Job summary

Humana Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to keep the NBA platform healthy, reliable, and maintainable across the full tech stack (Java/Drools, React/Node/Postgres, Node.js/Temporal, Kafka, Databricks).

This hands-on role requires broad system understanding, strong reliability focus, and collaboration with delivery pods and Decision Intelligence. The position emphasizes incident response, performance tuning, and production-grade quality, with remote/hybrid work and occasional travel to

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Proficient in Java, Node.js/TypeScript, Python, and SQL.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and failure handling.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (Azure or equivalent) with containers/Kubernetes and CI/CD.
• Maintenance mindset: clean, well-documented code and reliable ops.
• Clear communicator across engineers and non-engineers.

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.
• Feature Implementation — Design and ship focused features, enhancements, and technical improvements across platform components.
• 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

Distributed systems

Polyglot codebase

Observability

Cloud & Kubernetes

Communication

Tools

Kafka

Drools

React/Node/Postgres

Databricks

Job description

Humana Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to keep the NBA platform healthy, reliable, and maintainable across the full tech stack (Java/Drools, React/Node/Postgres, Node.js/Temporal, Kafka, Databricks).

This hands-on role requires broad system understanding, strong reliability focus, and collaboration with delivery pods and Decision Intelligence. The position emphasizes incident response, performance tuning, and production-grade quality, with remote/hybrid work and occasional travel to