Staff Engineer – Strategy Foundation Engineering

Position Summary 

GEICO is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement. 
 
Position Description 

Our Staff Engineer works across engineering organizations to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead 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 designing and implementing modern software systems, such as event-driven architecture, hybrid cloud, and more.

Position Responsibilities 
As a Staff Engineer, you will: 

·       Focus on multiple areas, partnering with a range of engineering teams and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise  

·       Collaborate across engineering organizations, team members, customers, and senior leadership to solve our toughest problems  

·       Identify areas of improvement within GEICO’s software stack, and develop and execute technical software development strategy for those domains

·       Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of solutions  

·       Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community  

·       Play an active role in guiding GEICO’s architecture reviews and engineering transformation  

·       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  

·       ​Own complete solution across its entire life cycle  

·       ​Influence and build vision with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems for building enterprise-class business applications  

·       ​Lead design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization  

·       ​Utilize programming languages like Python, C# or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services  

·       ​Mentor more junior team members professionally to help them realize their full potential  

·       ​Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

Qualifications 

·       Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and data pipeline and architectures, scale and performance, tuning, with good knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes  

·       Advanced knowledge of modern languages such as Java, .NET, Go, Python, C++, etc. 

·       Understand open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc., as well as No-SQL databases like ONgDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc.

·       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  

·       Knowledge in big data and streaming data pipeline architecture (Lambda/Kafka) and K8s clusters  

·       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)  

·       Knowledge on monitoring software such as Grafana and Prometheus, and conducting performance assessments 

·       Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches  

·       Willing to work on both fast development and operation environment   

·       ​Experience in building products using micro-services oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs  

·       ​Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems  

·       ​Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and Azure DevOps Operational Framework  

·       ​Experience in existing Operational Portals such as Azure Portal  

·       ​Experience in Datacenter structure, capabilities, and offerings, including the Azure platform, and its native services  

·       Excellent communication skills – needs to be able to lead projects from the front and interact with clients and sponsors on a regular basis   

·       ​Strong problem-solving ability   

·       ​Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment​​  

Experience 

·       6+ years of professional experience in software development, platform architecture, administration, governance, infrastructure management, installation, and maintenance of the hardware, software, and network systems  

·       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 hybrid cloud  

Education 

·       Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work 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.