Senior Software Engineer - Remote

UnitedHealth Group•Eden Prairie, MN

3d•$91,700 - $163,700•Remote

About The Position

Logistics Health Incorporated (LHI), part of the Optum family of businesses, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Cloud Platform Engineering team. The team builds reusable software and platform capabilities that enable secure cloud infrastructure across Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. This is a software engineering role focused on cloud platforms rather than traditional systems administration. The team treats Infrastructure as Code as a software engineering discipline, using Terraform composition, reusable frameworks, internal libraries, testing, dependency management, and automation to manage cloud resources. The role enhances established platform patterns, contributes production software, and uses modern AI-assisted engineering practices while developing broader cloud expertise. The position can be performed remotely from anywhere in the United States. Hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area must work in the office at least four days per week. Remote employees must follow UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy. The role participates in a weekly on-call rotation and supports incident response and service restoration. The salary range is $91,700–$163,700 annually, based on full-time employment.

Requirements

At least 3 years of software engineering, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
At least 2 years of production software-development experience in Java, C#, TypeScript, or another comparable general-purpose programming language, including testing and debugging.
At least 2 years of practical Terraform experience, including reusable modules, composition, iteration and dynamic constructs, state and remote backends, automated testing, and CI/CD integration.
At least 2 years of demonstrated deep expertise in at least three cloud infrastructure domains in either Azure or AWS: networking, DNS, identity and access management (IAM), certificates/PKI, private and hybrid connectivity, and Kubernetes.
At least 2 years of experience with data structures, graph relationships, algorithms, computational complexity, and reusable software abstractions.
At least 2 years of experience working in an Agile delivery model with disciplined backlog refinement, acceptance criteria, and technical documentation.
Ability to participate in a weekly on-call rotation and support incident response for the platform capabilities the team owns.
Remote employees must adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.
Candidates must pass a drug test before beginning employment.

Nice To Haves

Relevant Azure or AWS certification; associate-level credentials are appropriate. Practical expertise is considered more important than certification alone, and foundational certifications alone do not establish the required depth.
Experience with large or deeply composed Terraform codebases, multi-cloud abstractions, code generation, internal SDKs, testing frameworks, or custom policy frameworks.
Experience with GitLab CI/CD, Argo CD, CDK8s, AKS, EKS, or other Kubernetes and GitOps technologies.
Deep specialization in one or more of the listed cloud infrastructure domains.
Practical AI-assisted development experience and exposure to MCP, agentic workflows, RAG, or comparable AI engineering patterns.

Responsibilities

Develop, test, and enhance reusable Terraform modules, platform framework components, internal libraries, and supporting software written in Java, C#, or TypeScript.
Implement cloud platform capabilities within established architecture using Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, GitOps, and cloud-native automation patterns where appropriate.
Apply software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, computational complexity, dependency-graph reasoning, interface design, automated testing, and maintainable abstraction design.
Contribute to code and design reviews and improve the reliability, security, observability, testability, and maintainability of shared platform components.
Build and maintain GitLab pipelines for testing, validation, policy enforcement, packaging, and safe infrastructure delivery.
Participate in the weekly on-call rotation, support incident response and service restoration, and turn operational learnings into tests, automation, documentation, or platform improvements.
Participate in Scrum, Kanban, or a hybrid Agile model, including backlog refinement, planning, reviews, and retrospectives; maintain clear work items, acceptance criteria, and technical documentation.
Use approved AI-assisted development capabilities to improve coding, testing, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational workflows, and show practical interest in emerging agentic workflows.