Geico

Senior Staff Engineer

Geico • $130K — $260K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years' experience in large-scale distributed systems
  • Expertise in fault tolerance and recovery design
  • Proven technical leadership on an organizational level
  • Strong design reasoning for partial failures
  • Experience with shared platforms used by multiple teams

Responsibilities

  • Own long-term technical direction for GEICO's management tools
  • Define scalable system orchestration patterns across architectures
  • Balance architectural tradeoffs for reliability and speed
  • Integrate vendor and bespoke platforms for a unified development experience
  • Develop standards and practices for team organization
  • Lead planning and execution for technology in an AI-first era
  • Connect data types to measure tech impact against business goals

Benefits

  • Strong team culture and support for personal ownership
  • Mentorship opportunities for growth and development
  • Focus on innovative technology solutions
  • Connection to impactful work across varied teams
  • Recognition for engineering contributions to product success
Full Job Description

The Role:

We are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for critical software development systems while establishing a strong culture of ownership. This role operates at the intersection of architecture, strategic influence, and innovation. You will be responsible for the technical direction of multiple products and systems, and shaping how GEICO Tech develops software and delivers the impact of their work.

This is a role for engineers who:

  • Craft thoughtfully designed, scalable systems
  • Define culture from team to company
  • Mentor and grow engineers within and across teams
  • Leverage technology to tackle any challenge

Scope & Impact

At the Senior Staff level, success is measured by durable impact across and beyond the Developer Engineer org, while leading and developing software. You will build systems while accelerating the growth and transformation of GEICO Tech.

What You’ll Do

Enterprise Technical Leadership

  • Own the longterm technical direction for our tools as GEICO’s management plane for team structure and roadmap delivery.
  • Define and evolve system orchestration patterns that scale across diverse application architectures and maturity levels.
  • Make architectural tradeoffs balancing reliability, operability, and development speed.
  • Integrate across vendor and bespoke platforms to unify developer experiences.

Culture of Ownership Software Development

  • Develop and mature software development and system ownership across Tech
  • Codify team standards and practices into source of truth for team organization
  • Connect team-based access across agentic development to permissions, to provide seamless, high velocity development experiences

Culture of Ownership Outcomes & Impact

  • Lead how organizations across Tech, from pricing to Platform as a Service, plan and execute on work in an AI-first era
  • Connect unstructured and unstructured data to quantify impact of technology & AI against business goals and KPIs
  • Cultivate engineering culture that recognizes engineers for the success and reliability of their products

What We’re Looking For

Required

  • 10+ years of experience building and operating largescale distributed systems.
  • Deep expertise in fault tolerance, resilience, and recovery design.
  • Proven track record of orglevel technical leadership beyond a single team.
  • Strong ability to reason about and design for partial failure.
  • Experience shaping shared platforms or frameworks used by many teams.

Strongly Preferred

  • Experience with durable execution, or workflow orchestration
  • Experience with Golang, microservices, Kubernetes; front end experience nice to have
  • Handson experience building and improving developer tooling.
  • Data-driven decision making, from observability to success metrics.
  • Ability to translate lowlevel technical risks into clear business and reliability outcomes.


Annual Salary

$130,000.00 - $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 candidates work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.


At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

About Geico

GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) is an American auto insurance company with headquarters in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It is the second largest auto insurer in the United States, after State Farm. GEICO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway that provides coverage for more than 24 million motor vehicles owned by more than 15 million policy holders as of 2017. GEICO writes private passenger automobile insurance in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The insurance agency sells policies through local agents, called GEICO Field Representatives, and over the phone directly to the consumer, and through their website.
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40,000 employees
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Founded
1936

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