Senior Platform Engineer — Remote, Scalable Systems

Humana Inc; Salt Lake City (UT); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) retirement saving plan

Paid time off

Long-term disability

Job summary

Humana Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to keep the NBA platform healthy, reliable, and maintainable. You will work across Java/Drools, React/Node/Postgres, Node.js/Temporal, Kafka, and Databricks pipelines to diagnose issues, improve reliability, and implement focused features.

This hands-on role rewards understanding of system integration and long-term platform health. Responsibilities include maintaining services, monitoring health, implementing scalable improvements, expanding

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 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.
• Maintenance-minded approach: reliable, well-documented code and healthy operational practices.
• Clear communicator able to explain complex systems to engineers and non-engineers alike.

Responsibilities

• Cross-Stack Maintenance — Maintain and support services across the full platform and ensure knowledge of components.
• Reliability Engineering — Monitor platform health, investigate production issues, resolve bottlenecks and scaling constraints.
• Feature Implementation — Design and ship focused features across platform components for clarity and maintainability.
• Observability — Extend logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting for clear production visibility.
• Performance and scale — Profile and tune components under load and scale as data grows.
• Quality — Write tests, code reviews, and uphold engineering standards for production-grade changes.
• Incident response — Participate in on-call, root-cause analysis, and durable fixes.
• Collaboration — Work with delivery pods and Decision Intelligence for long-term ownership.

Skills

5+ years experience

Polyglot codebase

Distributed systems

Observability practices

Cloud + Kubernetes

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 maintainable. You will work across Java/Drools, React/Node/Postgres, Node.js/Temporal, Kafka, and Databricks pipelines to diagnose issues, improve reliability, and implement focused features.

This hands-on role rewards understanding of system integration and long-term platform health. Responsibilities include maintaining services, monitoring health, implementing scalable improvements, expanding