Lead Software Engineer – Enterprise Observability

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 Why Join Enterprise Observability Engineering?
The Enterprise Observability Engineering team is a high-impact, high-autonomy group focused on building intelligent, scalable, and resilient observability solutions. We foster a culture of innovation, agility, and ownership—empowering engineers to solve complex problems, drive strategic initiatives, and shape the future of how we monitor and operate distributed systems.
If you're passionate about building tools engineers love, solving unscoped challenges, and leading with technical excellence—this is the team for you.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Lead Software Engineer with deep expertise in logging and observability engineering. You should be fluent in the principles of open telemetry, log ingestion, and event correlation across distributed systems. While familiarity with platforms like Splunk or Dynatrace is a plus, we value platform-agnostic thinking and the ability to design resilient, scalable logging solutions using the best-fit tools for the environment.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will drive the design, implementation, and evolution of our observability and logging platforms. You’ll lead enterprise-scale initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate across disciplines to ensure our systems are reliable, scalable, and performant. Applying deep technical expertise to solve real-world challenges. You’ll work closely with SRE, Security, Networking, Platform Engineering, and Data Science teams to evolve our observability strategy using AI/ML and cloud-native technologies.

Key Responsibilities

· Architect and optimize observability environments through software engineering best practices.

· Build automation scripts and tools to streamline observability instrumentation and deployment.

· Integrate observability into CI/CD pipelines using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and configuration management tools.

· Conduct observability code reviews and implement automated validation checks.

· Build AI-native tools for autonomous issue detection and resolution.

· Lead the design of distributed systems focused on reliability, scalability, and performance.

· Manage data routing, transformation, and endpoint monitoring integrations.

· Mentor junior engineers and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

· Collaborate across teams to align observability strategies with business goals.

· Communicate technical insights and recommendations to leadership.

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Required Qualifications

· Associate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

· 7+ years in software/infrastructure engineering with observability/logging focus.

· Strong foundation in operating systems, networking, algorithms, and distributed systems.

· Expertise in:

o Programming (eg. Python, .Net, Java, Go, Node.js)

o System architecture and AI Ops

o CI/CD (eg. GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)

o Infrastructure as Code (eg. Terraform, Ansible)

o Cloud-native development (eg. Azure, AWS, GCP)

o API design (eg. REST, gRPC)

· Proven leadership and mentoring experience.

· Agile delivery experience and strategic thinking around observability maturity.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years with a technical bachelor’s degree
• Open telemetry
• Experience with Splunk Enterprise & ES (SPL, dashboards, correlation searches, data models)
• Scaled and complex Data onboarding (HEC, UF, TA development)
• Integration with SNOW, SOAR, ITSM/SecOps tools
• Experience with Dynatrace, Cribl, Grafana
• Monitoring and alerting strategy design
• Budget management and cost optimization
• Automation and continuous delivery practices
• Leading cross-functional programs across technologies

Additional Information

Why Humana

Humana offers a variety of benefits to promote the best health and well-being of our employees and their families. We design competitive and flexible packages to give our employees a sense of financial security—both today and in the future, including:
Health benefits effective day 1
Paid time off, holidays, volunteer time and jury duty pay
Recognition pay
401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match
Tuition assistance
Scholarships for eligible dependents
Parental and caregiver leave
Employee charity matching program
Network Resource Groups (NRGs)
Career development opportunities

Work-At-Home Requirements

All Humana associates approved for the Home or Hybrid Home/Office work styles are required to self-provide wireless, wired cable or DSL access to the internet at the connectivity speeds required by the company to successfully perform their job with the exception of associates who live or work from home in the state of California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota. Connectivity requirements are detailed below.

At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is recommended to support Humana applications, per associate.

Wireless, Wired Cable or DSL connection is suggested.

Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if they provide an optimal connection for associates. The use of these methods must be approved by leadership.  (See Wireless, Wired Cable or DSL Connection in Exceptions, Section 7.0 in this policy.)

Humana will not pay for or reimburse Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates for any portion of the cost of their self-provided internet service, with the exception of associates who live or work from Home in the state of California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota.  Associates who live and work from Home in the state of California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota will be provided a bi-weekly payment for their internet expense.

Humana will provide Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates with telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job.

Interview Format:
As part of our hiring process for this opportunity, we will be using an exciting interviewing technology called Modern Hire to enhance our hiring and decision-making ability. Modern Hire allows us to quickly connect and gain valuable information for you pertaining to your relevant skills and experience at a time that is best for your schedule.

If you are selected for a first-round interview, you will receive an email/text correspondence inviting you to participate in a Modern Hire interview.  In this interview, you will receive a set of interview questions over your phone and computer, and you will provide recorded or text message/written responses to each question. You should anticipate this interview to take about 15 minutes. Your recorded interview will be reviewed, and you will subsequently be informed if you will be moving forward to the next round of interviews.

Social Security Task
Alert:  Humana values personal identity protection.  Please be aware that applicants selected for leader review may be asked to provide a social security number if it is not already on file.  When required, an email will be sent from [email protected] with instructions to add the information to the application at Humana’s secure website.

*This is a remote position

**Must be able to work EST.

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Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay Range

The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.

 

$129,300 - $177,800 per year

 

This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.

Description of Benefits

Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

Application Deadline: 11-16-2025
About us
 Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is committed to putting health first – for our teammates, our customers and our company. Through our Humana insurance services and CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare, Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large.

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