Senior Platform Engineer - Remote Reliability & Scale

Humana Inc; Concord (NH); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus incentive plan

Flexible work arrangement

Job summary

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

You will work across the Java/Drools, React/Node/Postgres, Node.js/Temporal, Kafka, and Databricks components to diagnose issues, improve reliability, and implement focused features. The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, observability, and collaboration with delivery pods and Decision Intelligence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Ability to read/debug multiple languages (Java, Node.js/TS, Python, SQL).
• Experience operating services on cloud infrastructure with Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Cross-Stack Maintenance - Maintain and support services across the full platform; keep current knowledge of components.
• Reliability Engineering - Monitor platform health, investigate production issues, and resolve bottlenecks.
• 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 and scale reliably as usage grows.
• Quality - Write tests, review code, and uphold engineering standards for production-ready changes.
• Incident response - Participate in on-call rotation and drive root-cause analysis.
• Collaboration - Work with delivery pods and Decision Intelligence for long-term ownership.

Skills

5+ years experience

Polyglot codebase

Distributed systems

Observability practices

Cloud infra (Azure)

Kubernetes & CI/CD

Strong communicator

Java/ Node.js/ Python

Tools

Kafka

Temporal

Drools

Databricks

React/Node/Postgres stack

Job description

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

You will work across the Java/Drools, React/Node/Postgres, Node.js/Temporal, Kafka, and Databricks components to diagnose issues, improve reliability, and implement focused features. The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, observability, and collaboration with delivery pods and Decision Intelligence.