Principal Software Engineer – Public cloud , Python/GoLang , IaC

Optum’s Public Cloud engineering team develops software, manages security, financial controls, and creates reusable application patterns that enable the enterprise to operate at scale within the public cloud space. Optum product teams build on top of this platform to deliver value safely, quickly, and sustainably. This supports Optum’s goals of helping people live healthier lives and makes the health care system work better for everyone.

In this position, you will work with a growing team to create business value while collaborating with product owners, operational staff and technology leadership in an agile manner. Your work will be leveraged by thousands of Optum and UnitedHealth Group engineers as they work to build mature applications on top of public cloud resources. Come join us!

The ideal candidate will have deep software engineering skills, experience applying those skills to manage and use public cloud resources, and exhibit agile development leadership. They will apply these skills as a senior engineer for new services and software with scalability, interoperability, and code maintainability in mind.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Building and operating secure cloud platform capabilities that meet business requirements
• Innovate to improving efficiency, reducing technical drag, and create usable app patterns
• Practice SRE principles, to eliminating repetitive tasks, monitor performance, simplifying work practices, defining outcomes and metrics, and assure operational quality
• Manage security controls at the platform layer to enable the organization to operate securely, efficiently, and within policy
• Assist multiple partner teams to understand and apply information security guidance and standards with the goal of mitigating information security risks

Required Qualifications:

• Overall 12+ years of experience which includes , 4+ years of experience as software development engineer or equivalent hands on experience producing code for production systems
• 2+ years of experience in Public Cloud such as AWS, Azure, GCP beyond basic IaaS functionality
• 2+ years of experience programming in at least one high-level language (Python, Golang, JavaScript, etc.)  
• 2+ years of experience with the software build cycle
• 1+ years of engineering experience in building infrastructure using code and repeatable designs
• 1+ years of experience in automation of CI/CD using GitHub actions or similar and source control system such as Git 
• 1+ years of experience with Agile/lean development practice
• 1+ years of experience with Terraform

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with containers and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes 
• Algorithms, data structures, OO design and other CSCI concepts
• API design and lifecycle management (REST, etc.)
• Application foundations and frameworks (Spring, Flask, etc.)
• Data storage, caching and optimization (NoSQL databases, Redis, PostgreSQL, etc.)
• Inter-service messaging and streams discovery (SQS,Pub/Sub Kafka, etc.)
• Instrumentation, logging and tracing (Prometheus, CloudWatch, Stack Driver, Azure Monitor etc)
• Evidence based approach to making decisions and solving problems
• Demonstrated design mindset – capable of building distributed/scalable services

Careers with Optum. Here’s the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world’s large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life’s best work.^SM

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.