Staff Engineer – SRE Platform

Position Summary

GEICO is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.

Position Description

Our Staff Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will have the opportunity to manage the complex challenges of scale which are unique to GEICO, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis and large-scale system design. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in the Open-Source Database, Messaging, Events and serverless platforms.

Position Responsibilities
As a Staff Engineer, you will:

Focus on multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise

Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems with a focus on reliability.

Develop and execute technical software development strategy for serving Platform as a service.

Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions

Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community. Influence and educate executives

Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans

Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability and sponsor continuous learning

Willing to take on-call and operation support

Qualifications

Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and data pipeline and architectures, scale and performance, tuning, with good knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes

Familiarity with micro-services architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes/OpenStack/Azure

Experience in managing and scaling distributed systems in a public, private, or hybrid cloud environment.

Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems

Experience with the Prometheus/Grafana/Open Telemetry/Loki

Experience with J2EE, XML, SQL, XML, Python or Go programming.

Advance knowledge of at least one OOP languages such as Java, .NET, Go, Python, C++, etc

Understand open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc., familiar with No-SQL databases like ONgDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc.

Deep understanding of messaging and events streaming platforms like Apache Kafka, Azure service bus & Azure Events Hub.

Experience building and configuring flows, and process builders

Strong understanding of web service integration (REST/SOAP) and enterprise middleware integration tiers

Excellent communication skills – needs to be able to lead projects from the front and interact with clients and sponsors on a regular basis

Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production

Experience with continuous delivery (CI/CD) and Infrastructure as Code

In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms

Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches

Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment

Willing to work on both fast development and operation environment

Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, test automation and related tools, operations, real-time communication)

Experience

10+ years of professional experience in software development, platform architecture, administration, governance, infrastructure management, installation, and maintenance of the hardware, software, and network systems

4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

3+ years of experience with architecture and design

3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or hybrid data center

Education

Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

Annual Salary

$80,000.00 - $260,000.00

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

Benefits:

As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our Total Rewards Program* to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including:

Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period**
Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
401(k) Plan
Tuition Reimbursement
Paid Training and Licensures

*Benefits may be different by location. Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.

**Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.