About the role

Staff Software Engineer driving innovation and engineering excellence at GEICO. Focus on high performance, low maintenance platforms, leading technical roadmaps and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

Focus on multiple areas and provide technical 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
Be 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
Take on-call and operation support

Deep hands-on experience in complex system design, data pipeline and architectures, scalable distributed systems
Fluent in at least one OOP languages such as Java, Go, Python, C++, etc.
Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap
Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
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)
Experience with open-source messaging and event streaming platforms with emphasis on building enterprise scale platforms
Experience in CI/CD pipeline and related open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI/SonarQube and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible will be a plus
Knowledge on Open-source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus will be a plus
Familiarity with other messaging and event solutions like Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hub will be a plus
6+ years of professional experience.
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 similar cloud service preferred

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.