Senior Platform Engineer

Humana

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Remote Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Boston, MA
Salary
$106,900–$147,000 / yr
Posted
22 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Sep 30, 2026

Market check

Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $182k
This role $127k
$93k most similar roles pay here $240k

This role pays less than 95% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$213,200 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $127k versus about $182k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

About Humana

Humana Inc. is a leading American for-profit health insurance company based in Louisville, Kentucky, specializing in Medicare Advantage plans.

Humana currently has 20 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $129,300–$177,800 across 20 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer - NBA The Senior Platform Engineer maintains the health, reliability, and maintainability of the complex NBA platform. This role involves managing a diverse technology stack to ensure high performance and seamless integration across various components. You will perform cross-stack maintenance, resolve production bottlenecks, implement feature enhancements, and improve system observability through logging, metrics, and tracing. The work involves managing a polyglot codebase including Java, Node.js, TypeScript, Python, and SQL. Key technologies include the Drools rules engine, React, Postgres, Kafka event backbones, Temporal orchestration, and Databricks decisioning pipelines. You will also manage infrastructure on Azure using containers and Kubernetes while participating in incident response and root-cause analysis. The role addresses technical challenges involving distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and data throughput within a regulated environment requiring careful handling of protected health information.

What does a Platform Engineer earn?

Median $150000 from 32 postings across 22 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Maintain and support services across the full technology stack including Java, Node.js, and Kafka.
  • Monitor platform health to identify and resolve bottlenecks, failures, and scaling constraints.
  • Design and ship new features and technical improvements focused on clarity and maintainability.
  • Expand logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting systems to improve production visibility.
  • Profile and tune system components to ensure performance under high data throughput.
  • Write automated tests and perform code reviews to uphold engineering standards.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation and lead root-cause analysis for production incidents.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
  • Ability to read, debug, and extend code in multiple languages including Java, Node.js/TypeScript, Python, and SQL.
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems, including APIs, event-driven patterns, asynchronous processing, and failure handling.
  • Hands-on experience with observability practices such as structured logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
  • Experience operating services on cloud infrastructure (Azure or equivalent) using containers, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.
  • Preferred experience with Kafka producer/consumer patterns and stream processing.
  • Familiarity with Temporal or similar workflow-orchestration platforms and rules engines like Drools.
  • Preferred experience with React/Node/Postgres stacks and Databricks, Delta Lake, or Spark-based data pipelines.

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