Senior Platform Engineer — Remote, Reliability & Scale

Humana Inc; Carson City (NV); 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 scalable.

You will own cross-cutting areas across Java, Node.js, Python, and SQL, and work to improve reliability, performance, and maintainability in a complex tech stack. This hands-on role emphasizes collaboration with delivery pods and Decision Intelligence, with on-call rotation and a focus on incident response, observability, and scalable design.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Proficient across Java, Node.js/TypeScript, Python, and SQL.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and observability practices.

Responsibilities

• Cross-Stack Maintenance across the full platform.
• Monitor platform health and resolve bottlenecks.
• Design and ship focused features for platform components.
• Extend logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• Profile and tune components under load to scale.
• Write tests and participate in code reviews.
• Participate in on-call rotation and perform root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with delivery pods and Decision Intelligence.

Skills

Software engineering

Polyglot codebase

Observability

Cloud/Azure

Communication

Tools

Kafka

Temporal

Drools

React/Node/Postgres

Databricks

Job description

Humana Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to keep the NBA platform healthy, reliable, and scalable.

You will own cross-cutting areas across Java, Node.js, Python, and SQL, and work to improve reliability, performance, and maintainability in a complex tech stack. This hands-on role emphasizes collaboration with delivery pods and Decision Intelligence, with on-call rotation and a focus on incident response, observability, and scalable design.