Staff Engineer - API Management (REMOTE)

GEICO’s API Management Platform is seeking a Staff Engineer to join the team who was born out of a vision to create an enterprise grade platform enabling GEICO application teams to create, publish, manage, discover, and consume high quality APIs for internal and external integrations.

We are committed to this vision with a relentless pursuit of the following mission objectives:

• Support all API based integrations with Partners, Vendors, and internal GEICO applications
• Support all types of APIs – REST, SOAP, GraphQL, gRPC, AsyncAPI etc.
• Cloud native, highly available platform supporting Azure and On-Prem implementations
• Self-Service tooling and automation to remove overhead of using an additional system
• Easy extensibility with customizable plugins
• Portals with role-based access for easy discovery, consumption, and management of APIs
• Robust observability capabilities for quick identification and remediation of issues

Qualifications:

• Strong software engineering and system architecture background.
• Experience with API management and related solutions including custom development to ensure high availability, performance, and scalability of API infrastructure.
• Provide expert-level technical support to internal and external customers, resolving complex issues related to API management and cloud infrastructure.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives in API strategies, best practices and multi-cloud operations.
• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for the Platform Engineering domain to support API management and custom tools.
• Experience with REST APIs, Microservices, and containers. Proficient in Kubernetes (K8s) with hands-on experience in cluster provisioning and management.
• Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and data pipeline and architectures, scale and performance, tuning, with good knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes.
• Professional experience in software development using modern programming languages like Go (preferred) or Python, Typescript, Java.
• Knowledgeable in security best practices for secure configurations, authn/z and data protection.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation and best practices for API management and support.
• Familiarity with security protocols and products, including Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, and OAuth.

Experience

• 8+ years of professional experience in software development
• 5+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 5+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud services
• 3+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
• Proficiency with coding, debugging, and tooling using .NET, Java language and experience with Go language
• BSCS or MSCS, or related engineering field and/or professional work experience is required

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 Assistance
• 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.