Senior Software Engineer-Observability

Humana

2d • Remote

About The Position

Become a part of our caring community and help us put health first 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

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.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree