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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.\nWe are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Enterprise Logging team and lead development of a next-generation log processing pipeline. This role is responsible for designing, building, and operating a high-throughput Lambda-based consumer that transforms and delivers ~500 TB/day of cloud log data from AWS, GCP, and Azure into Splunk Cloud. 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You will be building a greenfield, high-scale data pipeline that:\nProcesses ~500 TB/day across three major cloud providers\nTransforms events from a legacy AVRO-wrapped format into CIM-compliant native payloads\nDirectly enables Splunk Enterprise Security detection capabilities (correlation searches, data model acceleration)\nImplements intelligent data tiering to reduce licensing costs by tens of terabytes per day\nAt UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. 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