Geico

Sr. Software Engineer

Geico • $105K — $215K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in software development and architecture experience
  • Strong expertise in distributed systems and large-scale telemetry processing
  • Proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language (Java, Go, Python)
  • Experience with open-source databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and No-SQL databases (Clickhouse, Cassandra)
  • Hands-on experience in Observability platform solutions and advanced data analytics
  • Excellent communication and project leadership skills
  • Familiarity with CI/CD processes and Infrastructure as Code.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical innovation and provide thought leadership across the organization
  • Collaborate with product managers and engineering teams to tackle complex problems
  • Develop and implement strategies for the Observability Engineering domain
  • Ensure the performance, usability, and quality of technical solutions
  • Mentor junior team members and promote technical expertise within the engineering community
  • Share best practices and drive process improvements across teams
  • Analyze and integrate cost forecasts into strategic business planning.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage
  • 401(k) plan with company matching
  • Generous paid time off and holidays
  • Opportunities for career advancement and professional development
  • Supportive workplace culture fostering psychological safety and continuous learning.
Full Job Description
Position Summary

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior 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 Engineer works with our Sr Staff Engineer and other Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead Project and Execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in the Open-Source Observability, Data platform domain.

Position Responsibilities
As a Senior Engineer, you will:
  • Focus on Single or 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 Observability Engineering domain
  • Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
  • Be a executor as well as an active learner, helping to coach TDPs 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
  • Good hands-on experience in building complex distributed system to process large scale telemetry and architectures to support the scale and performance, with great knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes
  • Advanceed knowledge of at least one OOP language such as Java, Go, Python, etc.
  • Great understanding of open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. And strong foundation with No-SQL databases like Clickhouse, Cassandra. Apache Trino etc. Knowledge or Big data formats such as Parquet or Avro etc.
  • Experience in architecting, designing, building Observability platform solutions, Advanced data analytics using Open-Source technologies are a big plus.
  • Experience building distributed systems
  • 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
  • Experience with Windows Server Administration and Windows Event Log
  • 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)
  • Knowledge in big data and streaming data pipeline architecture (Lambda/Kappa) and K8 cluster
  • Experience in open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI, and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible is a plus
  • Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches
  • 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 ML and AI technologies
  • Knowledge on Open-source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus


Experience
  • 4+ 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 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
$105,000.00 - $215,000.00
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.

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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Size
40,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1936

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