Senior Staff Engineering Manager, (Containers OS Language Runtimes) REMOTE

As a Senior Staff Engineering Manager, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, providing technical leadership to innovate, design, and optimize container runtimes, operating systems, and language runtime environments. You will drive the strategic technical roadmap, ensuring the delivery of high-quality products and unlocking new engineering capabilities. Additionally, you will maintain GEICO's operating systems, contribute to the upstream Linux community, and optimize runtimes for Java, GoLang, Node.js, Python, and .NET environments. 

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Manager, you will:

• Work with your senior leadership to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time

• Ownership of the end-to-end delivery of team strategy and platforms

• Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives

• Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas

• Report on your team’s progress for project and other key metrics, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery

• Initiate and support performance evaluation of team members

• Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement

• Build and maintain relationships with your team members to support an environment of trust

• Develop the team budget and be accountable for reporting on results achieved at regular intervals

• Significantly contribute to the team planning process to include surfacing associate level proposals

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production.

• Strong familiarity with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code practices.

• Proven expertise in designing, deploying, and optimizing container runtimes, operating systems, and language runtime environments.

• Deep knowledge of Podman, containerd, and related container orchestration platforms.

• Proficiency in operating systems, especially Linux, and managing end-to-end container image lifecycles.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.

• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development lifecycle.

• Experience in building resilient, scalable, and efficient systems architecture and design.

• Fluency in DevOps concepts, Cloud Architecture, and operational frameworks.

• Specialization in at least one modern language such as Go or Rust Strong problem-solving abilities and proactive approach to security risks and vulnerabilities.

• Excellent communication skills to convey technical concepts to diverse audiences.

Experience

• 6+ years coding experience

• 5+ years of significant experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, and robust products and platforms

• 5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising 10+ personnel in a technical environment

• 2+ years of experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related field, or equivalent 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.

Benefits:

As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our Total Rewards Program* to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including:

• Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period**
• Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
• 401(k) Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Training and Licensures

*Benefits may be different by location.  Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.

**Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.