Position SummaryGEICO is seeking an experienced
Software Engineer who is passionate about building
high-performance, maintainable, and resilient platforms and applications. This role is integral to our ongoing transformation-moving from a traditional IT model to an
engineering-driven organization that emphasizes reliability, scalability, and automation.
Position Description Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) blends software engineering and systems administration to design, develop, and manage large-scale,
highly available, fault-tolerant systems. SRE ensures that GEICO's services-both internal and customer-facing-meet
reliability, uptime, and performance standards while enabling
rapid iteration and continuous improvement.
As an
SRE at GEICO, you will tackle the unique challenges of
operating at scale, leveraging expertise in
coding and large-scale system design. You will also participate in
on-call rotations, providing
incident response, troubleshooting, and post-mortem analysis to improve system reliability and
minimize operational impact.
At GEICO, we foster a culture of
collaboration, continuous learning, and technical excellence. We value
diversity, problem-solving, and risk-taking in a blame-free environment, empowering engineers to innovate while receiving mentorship and support.
Position Responsibilities As a
Senior Staff Engineer, you will:
- Develop and drive the overall strategy for our enterprise Change and Approval Management, aligning it with the organization's business goals and objectives
- Lead technical initiatives across multiple teams, providing strategic and technical guidance.
- Utilize programming languages like Go, Python, Java, and work with SQL/NoSQL databases.
- Work with container orchestration tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenStack.
- Architect and develop cloud-native applications using Azure services.
- Collaborate with product managers, engineering teams, and stakeholders to solve complex challenges.
- Ensure the quality, performance, and usability of engineering solutions.
- Serve as a mentor and thought leader, coaching engineers and influencing executives.
- Continuously improve processes, adopt best practices, and drive operational efficiency.
- Support and participate in On Call rotations, respond to incidents, diagnosing production issues, and conducting post-incident reviews to improve system reliability.
Qualifications - Expertise in at least two modern programming languages (Go, Python, Java, C, C++) and object-oriented design.
- Strong ownership and accountability with excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Hands-on experience in incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
- Experience managing distributed systems in public, private, or hybrid cloud environments.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and cloud-based deployments.
- Ability to operate in a fast-paced, high-scale environment with a problem-solving mindset.
Experience - 10+ years of professional experience in software development, platform architecture, and infrastructure management.
- 8+ years of experience as either a SRE or DevOps team member
- 8+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or hybrid cloud environments.
- 8+ years of experience with open-source frameworks.
- 5+ years of experience with system architecture and design.
- 5+ years of experience of being in an OnCall rotation
Education - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience.
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 candidate's 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.
