Software Engineer

UnitedHealth Group•Minnetonka, MN

15d•$72,800 - $130,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. The Software Engineer is responsible for supporting and enhancing a high volume, cloud native claims platform built on Azure, Kubernetes, and Kafka. This role focuses on building reliable, secure, and scalable systems through solid CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, and modern observability practices. The engineer manages cloud infrastructure, certificates, and secrets, implements monitoring and performance visibility, and develops runbooks and disaster recovery procedures to ensure system resiliency. Partnering closely with Java engineering teams, the role drives production readiness, incident resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous improvements to application reliability and operational excellence. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week. You will enjoy the flexibility to telecommute from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Requirements

High School Diploma/GED (or higher)
5+ years of experience in Java engineering background (Maven/Gradle, Spring Boot, REST APIs)
3+ years of experience in Python
3+ years of experience with hands on experience with Azure cloud services (storage, networking, failover groups, resiliency patterns)
3+ years of experience with Kafka (topics, partitions, ACLs, schema registry)
3+ years of experience with kubernetes (AKS) including workloads, probes, scaling, logging, and security
3+ years of experience in CI/CD expertise—GitHub Actions or Jenkins—for automated builds, tests, scanning, and deployments
3+ years of experience with infrastructure such as Code (Terraform), containerization (Docker), Helm charts
3+ years of experience with observability tools: Prometheus/Grafana, Splunk, etc
3+ years of experience with SonarQube, and quality gating practices
All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

Responsibilities

Support high volume claims platform across Azure, Kubernetes, and Kafka
Builds and maintains CI/CD pipelines, automates deployments, and enforces security scans and rollback safety
Manages Terraform based infrastructure, certificates, and secrets
Implements observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk for system health and performance
Creates resilient runbooks, DR procedures, and reliability improvement
Act as a hands-on engineer, leading by example and working independently
Collaborates with Java engineers to ensure production ready services and operational excellence
Drives incident resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement across the application ecosystem