Software Engineer - Remote

UnitedHealth Group•Minnetonka, MN

8h•Remote

About The Position

Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care’s most complex challenges. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives. Ready to build the next breakthrough? 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. You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. 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’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in Java engineering background (Maven/Gradle, Spring Boot, REST APIs)
3+ years of experience in Phython
3+ years of experience with hands on experience with Azure cloud services (storage, networking, failover groups, resiliency patterns)
Experience with Kafka (topics, partitions, ACLs, schema registry)
Proven advanced working knowledge of Kubernetes (AKS) including workloads, probes, scaling, logging, and security
Demonstrated solid CI/CD expertise—GitHub Actions or Jenkins—for automated builds, tests, scanning, and deployments
Experience with infrastructure as Code (Terraform), containerization (Docker), Helm charts
Experience with observability tools: Prometheus/Grafana, Splunk, etc.
Demonstrated familiarity with SonarQube, and quality gating practices
All employees working remotely 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
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