Position Summary

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior 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 Senior 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 lead Strategy and Execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities.

Position Responsibilities
As a Senior 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
• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for the Platform Engineering domain
• 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
• Experience with open-source software is a plus
• Experience with governance and policy engines such as Cloud Custodian, Open Policy Agent (OPA).
• Advance knowledge of at least one OOP languages such as Go or Python
• Understand open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc., familiar with No-SQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc.
• 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
• 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)
• Knowledge in big data, streaming data and ETL pipeline architecture
• Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches
• Knowledge in ML and AI technologies
• Knowledge on Open-source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus

Experience

• 6+ 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

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

Annual Salary

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.