Senior Platform Engineer — Scale & Reliability (Remote/Hybrid)

Humana Inc; Honolulu (HI); On-site; 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 maintainable. You will work across the Java/Drools stack, React/Node/Postgres, Node.js and Temporal orchestration, Kafka backbone, and Databricks pipelines to diagnose issues and implement focused features.

You will monitor health, resolve bottlenecks, design scalable solutions, and uphold engineering standards with on-call participation and collaboration with delivery pods and Decision Intelligence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience in production systems.
• Able to read, debug, and extend Java, Node.js/TypeScript, Python, and SQL.
• Solid understanding of APIs, event-driven patterns, asynchronous processing and failure handling.

Responsibilities

• Cross-Stack Maintenance — maintain and support services across the full platform.

Skills

5+ years experience

Polyglot codebase

Distributed systems

Observability

Cloud infrastructure (Azure)

Kubernetes & CI/CD

Clear communicator

Data streaming (Kafka)

Tools

Java

Node.js/TypeScript

Python

SQL

Drools

React/Node/Postgres stack

Temporal

Kafka

Databricks

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 stack, React/Node/Postgres, Node.js and Temporal orchestration, Kafka backbone, and Databricks pipelines to diagnose issues and implement focused features.

You will monitor health, resolve bottlenecks, design scalable solutions, and uphold engineering standards with on-call participation and collaboration with delivery pods and Decision Intelligence.