PaaS Distinguished Software Engineer (REMOTE)

GEICO is seeking a Distinguished Software Development Engineer to join our Platform as a Service Engineering team that brings 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 experience for our customers.

Our Distinguished Software Development Engineer works with both our Principal and Senior 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 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 building out PaaS platforms and services and experience developing large scale Enterprise systems and services.

Position Responsibilities:

As a Distinguished Engineer, you will:

• Focus in a few key areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise

• 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

• Be accountable for the quality, usability & performance of the solutions

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

• Be fluent at least two OOP languages: Java, Go, python, C++etc 

• Understand open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc., familiar with No-SQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB, Elasticsearch (Knowledge with NewSQL database like TIDB or YugabyteDB will be a plus)

• Also be familiar with languages such as: C, PHP, Shell Scripting  

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

• Influence and educate executives

• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

• 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

Qualifications:

• Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap

• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production

• Track-record of publications history in credible conferences and journals

• Practical knowledge of working in Agile environment (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe)

• Experience with continuous delivery 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

• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)

• Experience building open-source database platforms with emphasis on building enterprise scale RDMS and NoSQL platforms

• Experience building data streams with Kafka and Container technology (Docker and Kubernetes)

Experience:

• 10+ years of professional software development experience

• 8+ years of experience with architecture and design

• 6+ years of experience in open source frameworks

• 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service

• 3+ years of people management experience

Education:

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

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Annual Salary

$110,000.00 - $261,500.00

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.

 

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