Senior Engineer – PaaS (Serverless)

GEICO team is seeking an experienced 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 Senior Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineers and 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 technologies such as Terraform, Postgres, Keda, Knative, and Kubernetes as a service.

Position Responsibilities  
As a Senior 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 
•    Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions 
•    Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and implementation of Containers and Kubernetes platform
•    Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams 
•    Take on-call and operational support 

Qualifications 
•    Fluent at least two OOP languages such as Java, Go, python, C++, etc. 
•    Good knowledge for two of the following languages: C, C# or other object-oriented languages, PHP, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript, shell script, SQL, 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 
•    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) 
•    Knowledge in big data and streaming data pipeline architecture (Lambda/Kappa) and K8 cluster 
•    Experience in open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI 
•    Experience using Terraform (infrastructure as code)
•    Experience with C# and .NET programing 
•    Expertise in Azure Functions, Azure Web Apps, and AWS Lambda is a plus
•    Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Certifications are a plus
•    Experience with serverless architecture using open-source tools such as KEDA and Knative is a plus
•    Experience with Python and PowerShell programming  
•    Experience with technical software development for Platform Engineering domain
•    Experience with CI/CD automation
•    Experience with Go open-source programming language is a plus 

Experience 
•    4+ years of professional PaaS and IaaS experience  
•    3+ years of experience with architecture and design 
•    3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service 
•    2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks 
 
Education 
•    Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

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Annual Salary

$82,000.00 - $185,000.00

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.

 

At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

 

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
• Pa