Senior Software Engineer-Observability

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Humana’s IT Enterprise Observability Engineering team is seeking a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with a strong background in observability platforms, cloud-native development, and systems engineering. As a Senior Splunk Engineer, you are required to have experience as Splunk Cloud Engineer with experience in Security Information and Event Management, log management and data onboarding. The role focuses on ingesting, normalizing and validating data sources into Splunk to support Security Operations, Information Technology operations and Compliance use cases. This role blends the design, development, and optimization of observability. It requires deep engineering expertise with modern observability practices, AI/ML integration, and platform automation solutions across metrics, logs, events, and traces, enabling actionable insights and operational excellence across the enterprise.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams including Enterprise Security, and IT Operations to deliver scalable, resilient, and compliant observability capabilities. While direct hand-ons Splunk Cloud expertise is required, this role also requires a broader engineering mindset focused on automation, integration, and innovation in observability tooling. Experience with AI/ML-driven analytics and modern cloud platforms (MCPs) is essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Configure and manage Splunk data inputs (Syslog, Universal forwarders, Application Programming Interface, Hybrid Electronic Cluster, cloud connectors etc.)
• Work with stakeholders to gather requirements for new sources and translate them into onboarding plans, with our key partners in Enterprise Security
• Develop and maintain technical add-ons for field extractions, data parsing and normalization
• Integrate AI/ML models into observability pipelines to enable predictive analytics, anomaly detection, and intelligent alerting.
• Troubleshoot ingestion issues across forwarders, indexers and parsing capabilities
• Automate onboarding workflows with scripts, dashboards, automation tools (Python, Ansible, Terraform etc.)
• Design and implement observability solutions using modern engineering practices and observability technologies.
• Develop and maintain integrations across observability platforms (e.g., Splunk, Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry,).
• Build and optimize dashboards, alerts, and analytics to support proactive monitoring and incident response.
• Collaborate with platform teams to ensure observability is embedded across CI/CD pipelines and production workloads.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and enterprise change management processes.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to knowledge sharing across the organization.

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Required Qualifications

• Associate’s degree and 7+ years of software engineering experience (or 10+ years in lieu of a degree).
• 4+ years of experience designing and implementing observability solutions, metrics, events, logs and traces
• 1+ years’ experience integrating AI/ML models into operational or observability workflows.
• Experienced in Splunk developing, onboarding and SIEM engineering along with Splunk universal forwarders, heavy forwarders and indexers
• Proficiency in data parsing and field extractions using props.conf, transforms.conf and Regex
• Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java).
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and telemetry pipelines.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Proven ability to work independently and lead technical initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Splunk Certified Core Power User or Enterprise Admin.
• Experience with Splunk SOAR, ITSI, or similar automation platforms.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Familiarity with Agile, DevOps, and SRE principles.

Additional Information

Work-At-Home Requirements

To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria:

At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is recommended; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested
Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if approved by leadership.
Employees 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 employees with telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job.
Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.

Interview Format

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

*This is a remote position.

**Must be able to work EST hours.

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.

 

$106,900 - $147,000 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: 04-14-2026

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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