Hybrid Senior Software Engineer – GO, Kubernetes, Object Storage

at GEICO

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer – GO, Kubernetes, Object Storage
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $75,000 - $230,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, Java, Kubernetes, NoSQL, SDLC, Terraform, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Seattle, United States

About the role

• Senior Engineer at GEICO developing high performance platforms and applications. Collaborating with teams to enhance existing systems and deliver innovative solutions.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Own accountability for the quality, usability & performance of the solutions
• Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and storage and data pipeline and architectures, scale and performance, tuning, with good knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
• Take on-call and operational support

Requirements

• Fluent in at least two programming languages such as Go (preferred) or C++, C#, Java, etc.
• Understanding of open-source object storage such as CEPH, MinIO
• Experience in using object storage services like AWS S3 or Azure Storage
• Experience on open-source database platforms with emphasis on building enterprise scale RDMS and NoSQL platforms
• Knowledge in big data and streaming data & storage pipeline architecture (Lambda/Kappa) and K8 cluster
• Experience in open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/ CircleCI , and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible will be a big plus
• 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 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
• 5+ years of software design and development experience
• 2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
• Professional PaaS and IaaS experience (optional)
• Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service (optional)

Benefits

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.