Staff Engineer - Object Storage PaaS (REMOTE)

GEICO is seeking an experienced engineer with a passion for building high performance, low-latency platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation and platform engineering domain modernization as we redefine experiences for our customers. You will be instrumental in driving the adoption and expansion of our object storage, ensuring its stability, security, and performance across our hybrid cloud environment for DataLakes/AI/ML Workloads

Position Description 

Our Staff Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Sr. Staff 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 the strategy 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 Object Storage platform domain.  

This team’s mission is strengthening GEICO's storage platform ecosystem by implementing open source, cloud native and cloud agnostic Object Storage for Datalakes/AI/ML workloads. We are looking for building a robust, automated, and scalable storage infrastructure to provide reliable and efficient storage services, empowering GEICO to deliver exceptional customer experiences and cheaper insurance using cutting edge technology stack.
 
Position Responsibilities 
As a Staff Engineer, you will: 

• 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 

Qualifications: 

• Fluent in at least two OOP languages such as Go (preferred) or C++, Java, Python, etc.
• Good knowledge of two of the following languages: C, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Java script, shell script, SQL, etc.
• Understand open-source object storage & databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc., familiar with CEPH, MinIO, No-SQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB, Elasticsearch 
• 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  
• 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 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 big plus 

Experience 

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 5+ years of experience with architecture and design 
• 5+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service 
• 3+ years of Object Storage experience (ceph or MinIO preferred)
• 3+ years of experience in open-source frameworks 
• Knowledge of PaaS and IaaS is strongly preferred

Education 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience 

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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.